Every week in Bhopal, Community Health Workers (CHW’s) from Sambhavna and teams of Community Health Volunteers (CHV’s) from local neighbourhoods screen local residents for Covid-19 symptoms, refer those who test positive for treatment, and carry out other essential community health work for survivors. Last week, beginning October 5th, teams of Community Health Volunteers screened nearly […]
With India still in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, Community Health Workers from the Sambhavna clinic in Bhopal continue their campaign to safeguard survivors and other residents in local communities from the virus. The core of the campaign involves the recruiting and training of Community Health Volunteers from these local neighbourhoods. Volunteers receive basic […]
This Wednesday, September 2nd, staff and volunteers of the Sambhavna Trust Clinic in Bhopal celebrated the 24th anniversary of it’s opening. Since opening in 1996, the clinic has provided regular and ongoing treatment to more than 35,000 survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, and treated more than 100,000 unique patients in total. The first […]
As cases of Covid-19 continue to rise in India, clinic staff and community volunteers in Bhopal have increased the scope of their door-to-door testing program in 35 local communities. More than 20 staff and 150 community volunteers have tested thousands of residents, taking temperatures and giving advice on staying safe and preventing the virus from […]
Today the total deaths from Covid-19 in Bhopal surpassed two hundred, with nearly two thousand more active cases. Many of those who have died were survivors of the 1984 industrial disaster, people who lived for decades in poverty, their lungs scarred by gas, only to finally succumb to this second invisible killer. Last month, to […]
