RCB hosts health camp for Garware Club On February 28th, 2024, the Rotary Club of Bombay organised a comprehensive health camp tailored specifically for the beneficiaries of Garware Club, extending vital healthcare services to those in need. This noteworthy initiative witnessed the active participation of dedicated medical professionals and volunteers, committed to enhancing the well-being of...
A two-day deaddiction and cancer screening camp was held for sanitation and sewage workers of BMC’s B Ward, at the ward office, on December 21st and 22nd, 2022. This was a joint project by Rotary Club of Bombay and Rotary Club of Addiction Prevention. Workers who provide sanitation services to any of our big cities lead a...
2.2 lakh Indians get End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) every year, resulting in an additional demand for 3.4 crore dialysis annually. With approximately 5000 dialysis centres, largely in the private sector, the demand is less than half met. Since every dialysis has an additional expenditure tag of about Rs. 1000-2000, the annual expenditure for patients is...
We would like all our members to make health their priority. RCB has tied up with several leading hospitals and medical facility providers in the city. They provide a comprehensive, holistic offering of healthcare services for all Rotarians and their family members. The Rotary Club of Bombay has partnered with 10 such medical service providers and diagnostic...
from Garden School, Colaba, at the clinic. Over 30 young children (approx. five-six years old), underwent paediatric and dental check-ups. The children were given milk and snacks as well as a goodie bag in the end. The IWA clinic in Fort offers the following medical services: Dental clinic: root canals, crowns, fillings from 11 am - 4...
Anushka Reshamwala, granddaughter of PP Rajnikant Reshamwala and daughter of Rtn. Manish Reshamwala, has begun an organ donation initiative called Leave A Legacy with three friends. The effort has been entirely shouldered by Anushka and her friends without any help from their parents. Anushka writes: 500,000 people in India die every year waiting for an organ...
The Rotary Club of Bombay and the Masina Hospital Trust inaugurated a special course in geriatric care on October 23rd, 2021. President Shernaz Vakil and DGE Sandip Agarwalla formally inaugurated the Rotary Masina Certificate in Geriatric Care with specialization in dementia care course. Rotarians Homi Katgara (Trustee, Masina), and Vivek Gupta who spearheaded the project for...
The Rotary Club of Bombay, in association with the Rotary Club of Ghatkopar, has set up a state-of-the-art dialysis centre named Rotary Samarpan Dialysis Centre. The centre is equipped with 14 high-tech BBraun Haeomodialysis machines. We appeal to all our members to adopt a dialysis patient to be treated at this centre. The cost of each dialysis...
The Rotary Club of Bombay, in association with the Rotary Club of Ghatkopar, has set up a state-of-the-art dialysis centre named Rotary Samarpan Dialysis Centre. The centre is equipped with 14 high-tech BBraun Haeomodialysis machines. We appeal to all our members to adopt a dialysis patient to be treated at this centre. The cost of each dialysis...
Master Hemant Naik, aged 4, was referred to Kokilaben Ambani Hospital for a heart surgery. He had Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) and had already undergone four balloon procedures and an open-heart procedure at Wadia hospital. He needed the Fontan procedure, a complicated surgery with a high risk. The parents were explained the risks before surgery...
Masina Hospital has launched a course in geriatric and dementia care, for young adults. The course, supported by RCB, is designed in collaboration with Tata institute for Social Sciences and Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India. The goal is to create well-trained caregivers. There are modules in gerontology, nursing care, psychological care, physiotherapy, occupational therapy,...
