Work begins on new Nursing College
We are delighted to share with you the news that the ground-breaking ceremony took place in February for the new Duncan Hospital College of Nursing. This huge project has been years in the planning and funding and we are so excited to share with you that it is finally underway. It has long been the…
Read MoreLooking with hope to 2022
Thankfully at the end of 2021 we can report that The Duncan Hospital is seeing a drop in Covid patients. Prabhu Joseph, Hospital Director told us that the largest peak in patients was seen in May 2021 when over 280 Covid patients were admitted almost all of whom were severely ill. It is a…
Read MoreDedicated staff steer hospital through the latest wave of coronavirus – video update
We are delighted to be able to share this video update from The Duncan Hospital. It is so good to see hospital director Prabhu Joseph, staff and patients, and hear that their tireless work in the face of waves of coronavirus has saved so many lives. You may remember we were helping to fundraise towards…
Read MorePipe up!
Great news from Duncan hospital – EHA Director Prahbu this week. He reports that work has slowly started on the O2 piping work that your generous donations to our Breath of Life campaign have helped to fund. These pipes may not sound lifesaving or exciting but they are part of a vital chain to transfer…
Read MoreYou have helped make this happen! Thankyou
If you donate to the Duncan Hospital Charitable Trust 100% of your money goes to the hospital – that is our promise. So, we are delighted to share some good news with you this morning. Earlier this year we ran a general emergency Corona Crisis fundraiser. We are thrilled to share these images from the…
Read MoreThankyou all so much for your generosity!
A huge heartfelt thankyou to everyone who donated to our “Breath of Life” campaign to provide an urgently needed new oxygen plant for the Duncan hospital – EHA during the corona crisis. You raised a fantastic £9,926.51! We have received brilliant news that a major single donor (who we will be able to tell you…
Read MoreUrgent fundraiser for oxygen plant to help save covid patients
Gift the Breath of Life – The current Oxygen producing plant at The Duncan Hospital is struggling with unprecedented demand. We are urgently fundraising to help build an emergency plant to provide desperately needed oxygen for Covid patients. A production plant costs £58,000. It is easy to feel helpless watching the tragic scenes from India…
Read MoreDuncan hospital struggles as India battles devastating wave of corona
No one could have failed to have been moved by the awful scenes coming from India as another wave of coronavirus hits the country hard. In footage from New Delhi, repeated all over, bodies burn in endless funeral pyres as the capital chokes with smoke as the living try to tend to their dead. The…
Read MoreA story of hope for two tiny girls as the building blocks of a bright future are laid for others
As firm supporters of all that The Duncan Hospital do to advance the health and education of girls and women in India, we would love to share an uplifting story. Early last year a woman was bought in to the hospital to give birth. Paediatrician Blessy Suchi recalled in her blog, “When 25yr old Manasa…
Read MoreLooking back at 2020 – including moments of joy
We are delighted to share this updated newsletter, direct from The Duncan. As we all know 2020 was very challenging for the hospital and its staff, however all was not lost as the staff battled to help not only their patients but those struggling in the local community as well. Later in the year as…
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