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…

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Trustee 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…

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Building 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…

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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…

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Looking 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…

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Thankyou 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…

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Cautious 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…

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Doctors 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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