The aim of the outreach programme is to create community awareness of health issues and to refer patients to relevant Calcutta Rescue clinics or Government hospitals. It also provides children with immunisations and treatment for Vitamin A deficiency, scabies, de-worming, lice, etc.
This programme, 60Km away from Kolkata is intergrated with the Governments Health Initiatives for TB and providesfree detection, early diagnosis, treatment and follow-up treatment to a remote rural population of 25,000. A team of health workers and a dotor have been trained to use local fascilities to deliver the services and follow-ups.
Since 2003 we have become involved in arsenic mitigation.
This is in response to the long-standing crisis wherby, as a result of a drop in the water table, the drinking water supply
for a million people in West bengal and Bangladesh has become contaminated with arsenic.
we have a pilop project in Malda District 325Km north of Calcutta of 4 filters and tube wells for arsenic removal,
and additional filters with Swajal Dhara Programme.