Posts Tagged ‘Duncan Hospital Charitable Trust’
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 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 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 MoreCautious optimism blooms at The Duncan
The last time we updated from The Duncan Hospital in Bihar in northern India they were in the grip of the corona pandemic and indeed Blessy, senior paediatrician and wife of Hospital Director Prahbu, along with other staff members – actually caught the virus. As Prahbu explained, “Just a month ago we were so…
Read MoreMonsoon flooding adding to Bihar’s corona woes
Recent news reports from Bihar are not encouraging at the moment with reports that the Indian state is suffering from bad seasonal monsoon flooding. The Duncan Hospital in badly affected by the floods and it is hampering their efforts to aid patients and the local community in general. A recent BBC report details the problems…
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…
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