C-NES and the Boat Clinics gets the Healthcare Excellence Award 2020 in the category" Excellence in Outreach Healthcare" yesterday at a function held at Guwahati's Radisson Blu Hotel on 27th February 2020. Programme Manager Ashok Rao and Communications Officer Bhaswati Goswami received the trophy and the certificate from the Assam Minister of State for Health and…
C-NES invites energetic and creative student interns to assist the communications team in making short(one minute) videos, pod casts and related work with a focus on the Boat Clinic health outreach programme for about 3 months each. Selected interns will be given a certificate of merit. The work will involve field visit. Students from Journalism…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 48) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter October – December 2019) From The Field Awareness on IDD by Boat Clinic Units: Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) constitute the single largest cause of preventable brain damage worldwide. Majority of consequences of IDD are invisible and irreversible but at the same time these are preventable.…
On the occasion of World Radio Day 2020, Brahmaputra Community Radio Station (BCRS) or Radio Brahmaputra as it is commonly known, was awarded the Community Radio of the year at the 6th International Radio Fair at Bhubaneswar by the Minister of Revenue & Disaster Management of Odisha Government, Sudam Marndi. Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi, Minister (MOS, Ind. Charge)…
For Rahima Khatun, whose one-year-old child has diarrhoea, and Jamila, who could not get medicines for her chronic body ache and fever, boat clinics have become the only mode of medical help during floods in Assam. At Goroimari, the char (riverine island) close to the Orang National Park in Morigaon district, they eagerly waited for…
Swedish Radio Culture Correspondent, Naila Saleem and Arnab Dutta from CSE, New Delh accompanied by C-NES' Communications Officer Bhaswati Goswami visited a health camp conducted by the Nalbari Boat Clinic team on 19th November 2019. Here is the coverage- both as a news and feature piece. https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1650&artikel=7351128&fbclid=IwAR2-e-R0D506HsG4AhfK8AefJhX4mcYaBqUV98sP-IEl0KUj3z_p0zk3RIU
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 47) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter July – September 2019) As floods ravage the northeast Indian state of Assam once again, this is how the Boat Clinic teams work, every year, every monsoon. Facing an angry river,the flood fury, wading through knee high water, walking for miles and reaching out to…
By the Brahmaputra (Vol: 46) C-NES Newsletter (For the Quarter April – June 2019) Visitors from USAID and SAATHII A team comprising officials from USAID and SAATHII (Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India) visited the Brahmaputra Community Radio Station (BCRS) on 9th May 2019 and Jorhat Boat Clinic on 11th May…
