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Calcutta (Kolkata) |
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Sites
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Nirmal Hirday (Kalighat) Home for the Dying and Destitute (Pure Heart) Most people at Nirmal Hirday have either been turned away from hospitals or can no long be treated. Since opening it has served over 40,000 men, women and children.
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Shishu Bhavan Orphanage and Distribution Center: A children's home with two sections, one for orphans and one for sick children (Serves over 400 children)
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Shanti Nagar “City of Peace”
Prem Dan Home for handicapped and TB patients
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Institute For Indian Mother and Child
This is a non-governmental voluntary organization, committed to promote child and maternal health by providing the poor with free medical care. Experience has also shown the need for basic education provision. The I.I.M.C. is basically concerned with mothers and children, but other patients are treated too. Twice a week consultations, free medicines and nursing care are available for outdoor patients in Tegharia, Chakberia and Hogalkuria. About 5000 patients are treated in the 3 centers every month. The Intensive Care Program (I.C.P) monitors the growth of malnourished children and prepares a high energy, protein-rich food called N.D. (Nutritional Diet) from local ingredients. Mothers are taught about diet and children are examined, compared with their growth chart and given health care. The indoor centre was opened in late 1995 with 15 beds. Patients are mainly children, malnourished or with severe skin infections and mothers in need of antenatal care. Twice a month a vaccination day is organized as well as a medical camp to a remote village with no doctor.
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