Posts Tagged ‘The Duncan Hospital’
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 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 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 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 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…
Read MoreDuncan staff rally to help locals during Corona pandemic
Our second update from The Duncan Hospital in Bihar, India where staff are pulling together thin resources to help local people left struggling in the face of India’s coronavirus lockdown. The Duncan Hospital Charitable Trust is keeping in close contact with The Duncan during this Coronavirus pandemic. The plight of staff and patients remain in…
Read More