1983
1.526
40.000
2
Project start
Total number of doctor deployments
Treatments
yearly
Doctors usually
on site
Aid in India’s impoverished regions
With its over 1.3 billion (milliard) inhabitants, India is the largest parliamentary democracy in the world. Growing and wealthy middle and upper classes contrast with many millions of people who have to survive on less that the equivalent of $1.90 a day. The gap between arm and rich is huge. Enormous expanding slums exist alongside skyscrapers and large business buildings.
We have been active in the slums of Calcutta since 1983. The population density is a big problem; up to seven people often live in ten crowded square meters. The miserable living and hygienic conditions are also causes of infectious diseases, like tuberculosis, which is common in the slums. We support a tuberculosis hospital for women there.
Since the urban infrastructure in the inner-city slums of Calcutta is better than that in the rural regions, we transferred our priority from the center of Calcutta to poor rural areas in 2023.
Our medical projects
We established a rolling clinic for the remote Sundarban regions in 2022.
Jhargram
Many people suffer from social isolation, bitter poverty, and poor health in the remote Jhargram region in rural India. We established a comprehensive project and also send German Doctors for our rolling clinic there.
Sundarbans
We provide basic medical services with a rolling clinic for people in the remote Sundarbans region. We intend to improve the poor living conditions by providing health education for the public and training for health workers.
Support for mothers
Worldwide, one woman dies every minute as a result of pregnancy or childbirth. That is why our projects support expectant mothers throughout their pregnancy. It costs just 31 Swiss francs to provide safe care for mother and child.
