Living conditions in the countryside are often very precarious.

 

The medical team meets the population.

 

The Calcutta Rescue jeep

 

Street Medicine Programm

Out-Reach Programmes

Urban and rural Out-Reach Programmes
Mobile medical teams are dispatched to districts and countryside regions to raise public awareness of health and hygiene and to provide Vitamin A and treatments against scabies and various parasites. Those requiring other forms of treatment are directed to an appropriate Calcutta Rescue clinic or to a government hospital. The teams create close bonds with these people by visiting frequently the same areas to create continuity and mutual trust.

Out in the field the teams split into two divisions with the Rural Out-Reach programme on the one side that deals solely with villages around Calcutta and the Urban Out-Reach Programme on the other that focuses on the slums and streets.

Other more specific programmes are grafted onto the Urban Out-reach Programme to respond to more urgent needs of the population and to strengthen the prevention and public awareness aspects.

TIP (Target Initiative Pragramm)
This programme targets mainly children from 0 to 12 in the slums of Calcutta and provides preventative treatment at regular intervals such as Vitamin A and medicines against worms, parasites and scabies. The medical personnel is also there to direct people requiring vaccinations or a specific treatment to one of the organisation’s clinics or to a government hospital

The medical team responsible for the TIP goes into the slums daily to meet the population and is equally active in information and public awareness campaigns.

Street Medicine Programm
This programme is aimed at people living on Calcutta’s streets as opposed to the slums. The Street Medicine Programme services are the same as the TIPs except that there are as many adults receiving care as children.

A medical team tours once a week in a Calcutta Rescue ambulance to dispense preventative treatments and to raise health and hygiene awareness. A generous donation made following Dr. Jack Preger’s conferences at the Street Medicine Symposium held in the US enabled this programme to be set up.

 

 
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