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 […]
As part of Yoga for Bhopal Week 2020, the resident yoga therapist at the Sambhavna clinic, Dr. Shweta Chaturvedi, has been kind enough to send us a report on her work with patients at the clinic. With the help of new safety measures, she has been able to continue this important treatment for survivors and […]
‘Vanaj’ is a Hindi word of Sanskrit origin meaning ‘born in the forest’. In Sambhavna’s community gardens, it is the name given to the collections of microorganisms that the gardeners harvest from the forest. In October 2017, a retired University Professor of Agroecology and Medicinal Plants from Brazil, Dr. Vera Maria Carvalho Silva Santos, travelled […]
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 […]
