{"id":29,"date":"2019-12-31T07:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T07:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calcuttarescue.org.cp-in-9.webhostbox.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T08:06:50","slug":"healthcare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/calcuttarescue.org\/usa\/healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Public sector spending on healthcare in India is around 1% of GDP (compared to 8.7% in South Africa), so a whopping 17% of the population (compared to 0.6% in South Africa) spends more than 25% of their income on healthcare. The public hospitals, with a meager budget, are a dismal place with overcrowding, unclean environment, shortage of medicines, and inadequate trained staff. As a result, the poor who cannot afford private facilities simply suffer and die prematurely.<\/span><\/p>\n

As an illustration, child immunization rate in India is among the lowest in the world. Except for BCG vaccine, the immunization rates are lower than in sub-Saharan Africa. In contrast, Bangladesh, with a much lower GDP per person, has achieved a 95 percent immunization for all the vaccines.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In Calcutta Rescue, we offer medical services and medicines to the poor slum dwellers. Besides educating them on preventive health measures, we provide child immunizations, treatments of common diseases, as well as more expensive treatments of tuberculosis, HIV and leprosy. Unfortunately, leprosy is a treatable disease and while most of the world has been able to eradicate leprosy, and reduce the cases of TB, both of these contagious diseases are still prevalent in India, and India has the third highest number of HIV cases.<\/span><\/p>

We provide these services in four clinics in north Kolkata and two Mobile Clinics. The Mobile Clinics are fully equipped and staffed and are taken to poverty-stricken places in and around Kolkata. In addition, there is a TB clinic, and special arrangements for leprosy patients. These clinics and the pharmacy are staffed by qualified doctors, nurses and pharmacists, many of whom are local and international volunteers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Calcutta Rescue has four fixed clinics in north Kolkata and two mobile clinics serving 25 slum communities across the city:<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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