A two day Medical Officers training programme was organized by C-NES in association with NRHM, Govt of Assam, on 3rd and 4th June at Hotel Orchid, Guwahati. The training dealt with issues related to reducing Maternal Mortality Rate(MMR) Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) and Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in the thirteen Boat Clinic operated districts in Assam,…
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, who was awarded the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Fellowship for April-May 2011, for writing a part of his latest book on the North-east and its neighbourhood with a focus on margins, borders, State impunity and its impact on women, especially in conflict situations, has completed the fellowship. He made a presentation…
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, C-NES has been appointed a member of the National Steering Committee on Health, under the auspices of the Planning Commission, Government of India. This follows the completion of six years of the successful Boat Clinics initiative in Assam that has won national and international recognition and which he has designed and…
The following is a note by Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative which works extensively on RTI. It contains a detailed analysis of the Jan Lokpal Bill that is being debated around the country. This analysis is being circulated to encourage informed debate on the subject. This note has been shared with the…
A baby boy was delivered on 26th April, 2011 at Sarikholia sapori, Dibrugarh district in upper Assam, under the supervision of Dr Bhaben Borah and Dr Kumud Agarwala, Medical Officers of the Dibrugarh Boat Clinic while the boat clinic was anchored at Mesaki sapori for a scheduled camp. The new mother, Ramita Yadav was…
A Switzerland based company, RIB (rigid inflatable boats) Expeditions and Adventures, has extended a helping hand towards emergency medical care in the char saporis of Assam. The company has donated an inflatable speed boat that will operate in Tinsukia district and will support the Tinsukia Boat Clinic run by C-NES in partnership with NRHM. The…
SB Numali, the boat donated by Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) to the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is ready for service. The boat crew is waiting for high water to come, to move it to Sonitpur, where the boat will provide health…
A baby boy was delivered on 13th February, 2011 at Ghuria sapori in upper Assam’s Jorhat district, under the supervision of Dr Aeron Momin and Dr Debadip Dey, Medical Officers of the Jorhat Boat Clinic. The Boat Clinic health outreach programme reaches out to the state’s vulnerable population who live on islands on the Brahmaputra…
Calling for collaboration in inclusive health care for millions of vulnerable people in NE India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and SW China, Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, C-NES, made a presentation at Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, China, on the innovative Boat Clinics that the organization runs in partnership with the National Rural Health Mission in 13 districts…