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Initiatives - Health

Click to enlargeCommunity Medicine Programme, Sunderbans, West Bengal
Supported the Association of Conservation and Tourism (ACT) in setting up more than 68 medical camps in remote villages on the island of Bali in the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve benefitting 18,000 villagers, primarily women, children and the elderly.

Initiated a para professional health workers training programme in collaboration with Child In Need Institute (CINI), Kolkata. 15 volunteers of ACT, 10 semi-skilled practicing dais, 10 Rural Medical Practitioners from villages of Sundarbans will be trained to address health care needs of the village.

 


 

Click to enlargeSeamen's Ward, St. George's Hospital, Mumbai
The seamen's ward at St. George's Hospital in Mumbai, established in the pre-Independence era, was in dire need of renovation. The Vasant J Sheth Memorial Foundation upgraded and equipped the ward with modern equipment and enabled the hospital to engage an excellent panel of doctors and nurses.

 


 

Click to enlargeIndian Red Cross Society Hospital (IRCS), Alang, Gujarat
Funded an orthopaedic and burns ward in 1997; donated two ambulances to the Indian Red Cross Society Hospital in Alang for accident victims from the hazardous shipbreaking industry. Also contributed towards an auditorium for the Gujarat Maritime Board's Safety, Training and Welfare Centre.

 

 

 
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