This is Tapurighata Boys' Sporting Club at Tapuriaghata, just 2 mins walk from Chingrighata on the E M Byepass. It is my intention to start a free weekly clinic, probably every saturday, for the poor people of the locality.
This clinic will be the first of a series of such clinics throughout Kolkata, meant for the poor and underpriviledged section of the society. The group "DOCTORS WHO TREAT THE UNDERPRIVILEDGED", created by me in sept 2009, will be the driving force behind this unique venture. Kolkata Municipal Corporation does have a chain of primary health care facilities in this city and provide for free consultation by in-service doctors, malaria detection, TB and leprosy treatment and free medicines, but this chain of clinics will differ in the respect that the doctors attending these clinics will provide voluntary service, all relevant investigations will be available to the poor people at cost price and there will be provision of supply of prescribed medicines at 50% discount. I have plans in the future to introduce package treatment facilities related to general surgery, orthopedics, eye, ent and gen medicine cases, requiring hospital admission, for the poor section of the society.
The group will be instrumental in running these clinics as a non-profit venture. In the mean time we are seriously thinking of registering the group as a NGO as early as possible and applying for 80G affiliation.
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