The S.B. Devi Charity Home was started before the turn of the century by an idealistic, wealthy, and progressive Bengali woman to help the poorest in Calcutta. The home included a one-room clinic where limited medical care was available to those without resources. The lady’s grandson is a recently board-certified Swiss-Bengali pediatrician. During his medical training and residency in Basel he decided to devote a few years to the continuation of his grandmother’s project. He raised funds in Switzerland and organized contacts in Calcutta. As a result, they have recently inaugurated a new and well-equipped full service clinic at the site of the old Charity Home. Free medical and pharmaceutical care will be available from volunteer practitioners in three parallel systems: homeopathic, ayurvedic, and Western — according to patients’ preferences. Shadhika will provide funding to develop and maintain an electronic technical reference library for the clinic.

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