Bidyabati Das, ANM, Sonitpur Boat Clinic has been selected as the best ANM of the district. She was felicitated by Sonitpur Deputy Commissioner Manoj Kumar Deka on the Republic Day January 26, 2017. This is the second consecutive award and recognition to Boat Clinic services in Sonitpur district. Das has been awarded with a Certificate…
A new book which graphically maps the health choices and challenges before women in the isolated island communities on the Brahmaputra river in Assam was released on Friday. Authored by Chandana Bora and Dr CR Hira the book titled 'Women and Reproductive Health' looks at the health concerns facing by women in the char/ sapori…
The National Family Health Survey-4, 2015-16 has revealed very deplorable state of Assam’s Universal Immunisation Programme and poor indices of Infant Mortality Rate and Under Five Mortality Rate. The data show that the state is lagging far behind the desired goals in respect of mother and child health. Read more..
Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS), a pioneer educational institution in social sciences with decades of experience in teaching, research, publications and field interventions has come forward to host 'National CSR Hub' to support Public Sector Enterprises(PSEs) for developing Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) management capacity. The hub carries out activities in a partnership mode i.e. TISS, Civil…
Rambuai, Mizoram’s Trouble Years’ a film by C-NES Managing Trustee Sanjoy Hazarika and Trustee Preeti Gill premiered on October 20, 2016 at the Royal Group of Institutions, Betkuchi, Guwahati to a packed hall . The film was screened as part of the River Talks – North East literary Festival organized by the Royal group of…
Dr. Henk Bekedam, the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India accompanied by a team from WHO India including Dr. Debashish Roy,Regional Team Leader,East and Officials of Health Department, Govt of Assam, visited a Boat Clinic health camp on October 5, 2016, to observe the unique work being done by these Clinics for the marginalized…
It was a dark night when Memo Bhuyan gave birth to her baby at home in the flood-affected Mohmara Island in a remote part of Assam with no medical assistance whatsoever. On seeing the Bhuyan developing complications, her old mother frantically stepped out of the home seeking help. It was around 11 pm on 31…
On the days when it is calm, the Brahmaputra resembles an impossibly wide silvery sheet of water, rippling mile after mile through the northeast Indian state of Assam. But when it rages, the world’s fourth-largest river by volume of discharge, is a savage horror, swallowing up entire islands, submerging villages, and wreaking havoc along its…
NE Blood Bank at Delhi Message from Robin Hibu IPS , IGP (Nodal Officer for North East People, Delhi) BLOOD BANK for people from North East India in Delhi & NCR - The NE States and Delhi Student Unions have agreed to donate blood.Our aim is to build the largest blood bank of Delhi &…
It had been raining all morning but Debika Mikum was still waiting. About a dozen women stood with her, huddled under their umbrellas. Chacha had seen them from afar. He deftly brought the starboard parallel to the slippery bank, as Sanjay Pegu, the wiry deckhand, flung the anchor ashore. From the other end of the…