Healthcare
Beneficiaries Impacted: ~1,600 people
Access to healthcare remains one of the biggest challenges for underserved communities. Our medical initiatives bring preventive care, diagnostics, and treatment directly to people who need it most.
A mobile eye care initiative providing eye screening, cataract detection, and spectacles to underserved populations across West Bengal.
Programs such as Standing Together Against Cancer and the Pink Bus cancer screening initiative have helped spread awareness and provide early detection services to communities who would otherwise go unscreened.
Organised with community participation to support hospitals and save lives — building a culture of voluntary blood donation.
Educating families and young adults about prevention and early detection of thalassemia, helping reduce the burden of this hereditary condition.
The Rotary Club of Jodhpur Gardens Calcutta, in collaboration with the Kolkata Armed Police, hosted a Cancer & Thalassemia Awareness & Screening Program at Body Guard Lines, 7 Diamond Harbour Road, Alipore. Supported by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Hospital, the event featured the Cervical Cancer Detection Bus, enabling free on-site screenings for over 125 women and 203 male police personnel.
The program commenced with a ceremonial lighting of the lamp by dignitaries including Sri Subhankar Bhattacharya, IPS (Jt. CP AP), Sri Amit Verma, IPS (DC 1st Battalion), Dr. Sanjay Gupta, DG Dr. Ramendu Homchowdhury, Dr. Monika Katiyar, DGN Purnendu Roychowdhury, PDG Mukul Sinha, President Rtn Jayanta Bose and leading Rotarians. IPP Sreya Mukherjee led the event with poise, setting the tone for an inspiring day. Dr. Monika Katiyar's session on the importance of early screening and lifestyle awareness left a lasting impact — reminding everyone that awareness is prevention, and prevention saves lives.
A mobile eye care unit bringing vision screening and treatment directly to underserved communities. Participant clubs include Rotary Club of Calcutta, Serampore, Midnapore, Calcutta Newbies, Central Calcutta, Kolkata Lakes, Calcutta Majestic, Calcutta Universe, and Rotary Club of Jodhpur Gardens Calcutta.
A dedicated mobile cancer screening unit — "Cancer Screening for Women on Wheels" — operated in collaboration with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Hospital, New Garia. Participant clubs include Rotary Club of Calcutta, Central Calcutta, Garden Reach, Calcutta Kolkata, Anusudan Kolkata, Calcutta Park Point, Calcutta Central, Salt Lake City Calcutta, Rotary Club of Jodhpur Gardens Calcutta, Rotary Club of Singapore, Dubbo & Dubbo South (Australia), RID 3291 India, RID 9660 Australia, RID 3310 Singapore.