Posts Tagged ‘Bihar’
Trustees celebrate opening of ‘The Giving Tree’ in Dunblane – pledging support for Duncan Hospital Charitable Trust
Huge thanks to The Giving Tree in Dunblane, Scotland who have chosen to support The Duncan Hospital Charitable Trust as their international charity. The Giving Tree is a charity shop that is part of Dunblane Development Trust – it supports local and international charities, as well as promoting sustainability. They will be helping to raise…
Read MoreTrustee visit to The Duncan, November 2023
We have so many projects on the go at The Duncan Hospital including the building of the new Nursing College and our sponsored Nurses in Training that we are delighted that Duncan Hospital Charitable Trust trustee, Professor Gordon Mackay of The MacKay Clinic is over in Bihar right now seeing how our latest donation funded…
Read MoreBuilding Hope and Advancing Health care in 2022
All at The Duncan Hospital Charitable Trust would like to wish our supporters a very Happy Christmas and send thanks for all your kind donations. Our biggest project to date – the building of the new Nursing College continues apace with the building slowly starting to rise from its foundations. We very much look forwards…
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…
Read MoreDoctors out there: Why small hospitals matter
This piece was published in civilsocietyonline.com April 23rd, 2020 and explains more about The Duncan Hospital and other independent hospitals in India, how the staff in such hospitals work to better the health of their local populations. “In 1992 a young couple, both doctors, travelled from Madurai in Tamil Nadu to a remote corner of…
Read MoreStanding together with The Duncan during corona
As many of you know India has been hit heavily by Covid-19 and the effects of a lockdown imposed within four hours on the country’s population Professor and Jackie Mackay only visited in February earlier this year. We were about to bring you videos of that trip with news of some of the exciting developments…
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