Masina Hospital is a 270-bed multispeciality hospital set up in Byculla, Mumbai over a vast eight-acre campus. The hospital mainly caters to underprivileged sections of the community. The hospital being in dire need of an upgrade, the Rotary Club of Bombay undertook two Global Grant projects on the trength of CSR contributions to provide new equipment...
The Rotary Club of Bombay’s Elder Care Committee and Cotton Green Committee organised a comprehensive check-up for members of the new Ananda Yaan Centre that opened at Dr. E Moses Road, Worli, recently. Members visited the Cotton Green Clinic on March 1, 2019. The check-up was smoothly coordinated by Vrushali Palwankar from the Rotary office and...
Keeping in mind that senior citizens of the new Ananda Yaan (Dr E. Moses Road) Centre did not have any previous medical reports, a comprehensive check-up camp was organised on February 2, 2019. This was efficiently conducted by a team from KJ Somaiya Hospital and coordinated by Mr. Dilip from the Dignity Foundation. The team,...
A medical camp was held at the Phoenix Mega Medical Camp, held from January 18 to 20, 2019 at Phoenix Mill compound, Lower Parel, Mumbai. The Rotary Club of Bombay organised for a team of specialists from the Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute to arrange the facilities at the camp, and attend and manage all walk-ins. They gave...
The primary children of Bhavishya Yaan (G K Marg, BMC School) and Lighthouse (Child Welfare Committee) had a dental check-up by the Rotaract Club of Government Dental College on December 14, 2018. A dentist, a team of 10 interns and students interacted with the children to understand their past experiences with tooth aches, causes of tooth...
The year Rotary began its fight against polio. It all started with a project to immunise 6 million children in the Philippines. Today, polio remains endemic in only three countries — down from 125 in 1988....
The International Women’s Association (IWA) Clinic, supported by the Rotary Club of Bombay, held a very successful medical camp on November 28, 2018 at the Clinic’s premises at Fort, opposite New Excelsior Cinema. The camp was attended by 38 girls aged eight to 17 years from the Convent of Jesus and Mary High School and Junior...
THE OPTOMETRY Department of the IWA Clinic, supported by the Rotary Club of Bombay, was inaugurated by President Vijay Jatia on October 15th, 2018. Pervin Jehangir, chairperson of the IWA, gave a small introduction on the history of the IWA which has been running a clinic at the Fort Gratuitous Dispensary at Fort since 1962. President Jatia...
IWA (International Women's Association) Clinic which is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Bombay, saw the soft launch of the Optometrist Department and now offers the following services to underprivileged patients in South Bombay, all under one roof: 1. General practice 2. Dentistry 3. Gynaecology 4. Paediatry 5. X-ray 6. Optometry 7. Homoeopathy 8. Cervical Cancer Detection ₹50 - one time registration ₹50 - doctor...
The illustration on the right shows us the number of beneficiaries at each of our medical centres: Ajit Deshpande Medical Centre - 2420 International Women's Association - 438 Cotton Green Medical Centre - 577 Phiroze Ratanshah Vakil Eye Centre - 2592...
The new Child Care Clinic run by the Rotary Club of Bombay in association with the Bombay Cotton Merchant and Muccadams Association Ltd. at Cotton Green was formally inaugurated on 8th. May 2018 by District Governor Prafull Sharma along with president Ramesh Narayan, Bhavna Daftary of Bharat Serums and Vaccines and Chairman, Cotton Green Committee Manoj...
Around 100 Bhavishya Yaan children of Ambedkar School went for an eye test to the Sah & Sanghi Medical Centre. Many children were prescribed eye drops, given spectacles and were sent for further eye checks to the Vision Centre at Babulnath. Simultaneously a meeting for all parents of Ambedkar school was held in the school hall....