Posts Tagged ‘The Duncan 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 MorePedaling with Purpose: Charity Trustee Conquers Dusk-to-Dawn Cycle Challenge for Sponsored Nurses
Congratulations to The Duncan Hospital Charitable Trust trustee Dr Graham Watson who completed the Ride to the Sun – Scotland cycle challenge and raised over £2000 for our sponsored nurses programme. Graham cycled over 165km overnight from Carlise to Cramond in Edinburgh. If anyone would still like to donate to Graham’s Just Giving page while…
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 MoreNursing a future at The Duncan
Our new fundraising campaign starts soon and with your help, we hope to raise £1,100 every 6 months to open the opportunity to train as a nurse at The Duncan Hospital to 2 girls who otherwise, due to impoverished backgrounds, would never be able to consider a career in nursing. Each student pays the equivalent…
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 MoreWork 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 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 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 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 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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