the clinic and outreach health project
The Clinic - The Tulsi Trust started operating a medical outreach project in 1994, with a local clinic being established in 1999 at the community centre. With thousands of people travelling up to one hundred miles to visit the clinic, it became clear that larger and more advanced facilities were necessary. When the local villagers donated fifty acres of land for The Tulsi Trust to build a dedicated health clinic and school, building work commenced and on Christmas Day 2004 our clinic near Kapsi, Chhattisgarh, opened its doors.
We look after approximately six thousand villagers in the surrounding areas, including the Adivasi tribal people, and supply medicine at a very reduced rate with free consultations and blood tests to 98% of the local villagers, who are extremely poor. The few families who can afford it are happy to pay for treatment and medicine. Our current Doctor, Dr Debashis Mallik, works six days per week between 9am and 1pm and regularly visits the surrounding villages to see patients who are too elderly, disabled, or too sick to come to the clinic. Over 200 patients are treated every week. The Tulsi Trust has links with the Ram Krishna Hospital in Raipur, where we send patients who require specialised medical attention and surgery, and with the AIMS Hospital in Kerala where we refer patients for heart surgery. Medical Camps Outreach Project - In order to reach the most remote villages and the people who simply live too far to come to the clinic, but have no access to medical care anywhere else, a mobile team composed of altruistic Doctors, Nurses, and Project Workers, holds medical camps every two weeks travelling to a different location every time. We are extremely fortunate to have found experienced Doctors and Pathologists who are willing to give up their time and travel from Raipur and Bhilai, several hours away by road, to help us look after the most vulnerable people. Mother and Baby Project - Similarly, we organise medical camps focussing mainly on mothers and children as one of the most vulnerable groups. The camps are advertised in all the villages and people start queuing early to see a doctor on the day of the camp. The average number of people attending the one day medical camps is 195, including pregnant women and new mothers with their babies or toddlers. The main illnesses that our doctors treat on a regular basis are: malaria, malnutrition, gynaecological problems, acute respiratory disease and TB, gastric problems, diabetes, hypertension and dehydration. To this day we are unable to treat the biggest killer in our area, cerebral malaria; nine out of ten fevers lead to this potentially fatal disease. the 24/7 free ambulance service
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The Tulsi Trust provides the only free ambulance service in the area which operates twenty four hours a day, every day. The ambulance service is always busy, travelling to the villages to bring patients to the clinic or to take them to the nearest hospital which is several hours away.
Amal, our fabulous ambulance Driver is on call 24/7 and is always ready to go, even when the political climate is so dangerous that he has to risk his own life in order to help others.
Our ambulance was purchased with the help of charity "Festival Medical Services" (FMS) who kindly donated money for this purpose in 2008. To this day, FMS continue to help us fund our health project, and we are extremely grateful for their constant support
Amal, our fabulous ambulance Driver is on call 24/7 and is always ready to go, even when the political climate is so dangerous that he has to risk his own life in order to help others.
Our ambulance was purchased with the help of charity "Festival Medical Services" (FMS) who kindly donated money for this purpose in 2008. To this day, FMS continue to help us fund our health project, and we are extremely grateful for their constant support