CR Street Programme Starts Again!
The COVID pandemic has meant that, until now, it wasn’t safe for Calcutta Rescue’s street medicine ambulances to work in the slums. This has made access to medical care more difficult for many people. But the charity’s team now have the personal protective equipment they need and has developed ways of working which should keep […]
CR trains community women for health education
Due to the COVID pandemic, Calcutta Rescue street medicine ambulances have not been able to go to core slum areas and provide service like before. Currently, we are only able to serve our registered patients but there are more and more people who need us. It is important to reach out to these beneficiaries. Given the […]
Keeping staff safe – Uttara and other staff, Dr Jack’s benevolent fund
The human cost of Covid-19 became very clear to staff at Calcutta Rescue in July when they lost a much-loved colleague to the virus. Uttara, who was a helper at Tala Park School, started feeling unwell on July 14. She isolated at home for a number of days but her condition worsened. Uttara was admitted […]
Nimtala clinic’s new wound-dressing room is finally finished!
It took six long months to build this small room where patients can have their dressings changed in private and in a hygenic setting. Building started back in January but came to a complete halt on March 25 when the nationwide lockdown was announced. The wound-dressing room was finally completed in June and has […]
‘Lost patient’ Badal returns to help the clinic
Badal was one of Calcutta Rescue’s ‘lost patients’ – people with serious medical conditions who the medical team lost touch with during India’s protracted Covid lockdown. Now Badal, who is 70 and has nasty ulcers on his feet, is back getting treatment at Nimtala Clinic and is helping track down other ‘lost patients’ Badal has […]
Calcutta Rescue rescues the Canal East fire survivors
A traumatised woman searches through the charred wreckage of her family’s home after a fire swept through Canal East slum in Kolkata earlier this month – destroying 54 huts and leaving 280 people homeless. A number of Calcutta Rescue patients lost all their possessions in the blaze and rang the charity to see if it […]
CR Medical team to the rescue!
“The risk of infection, the government lockdown, containment zones, monsoon floods, having to travel long distances…nothing can stop my team continuing to serve Calcutta Rescue’s beneficiaries.” So says Dr Ghosh, the deputy CEO (medical), who has been at the forefront of adapting the way the charity operates since the pandemic began. Here she talks about […]
Calcutta Rescue distributes smartphones to the students
Twenty Calcutta Rescue students were given new smartphones on Monday 17 August- allowing them to interact with their teachers online and access a wealth of internet learning materials. Many of the 650 youngsters being educated by the charity don’t have access to smartphones which has left them at a severe disadvantage since schools across India […]
Letter from the CEO: Covid Update 6
Dear Friends of Calcutta Rescue, The situation here in Kolkata has altered dramatically since my last email so I thought it was high time to update you on what our organisation has been doing. Prior to the easing of lockdown, we put a lot of effort into refining our procedures for how we were going […]
Kolkata Covid Challenge Tops £120,000!
Massive thanks to everyone who supported the Kolkata Covid Challenge last month – so far we have raised an astonishing £120,000 (Euros 134,000/ 1,17,24,884 rupees!) This is by far the most money Calcutta Rescue has ever raised for an appeal and it will be used to fund the charity’s Covid-related costs over the coming year. […]