SB Devi Clinic
The S.B. Devi Charity Home was started before the turn of the century by an idealistic, wealthy, and progressive Bengali woman to help the poorest in Calcutta. The home included a one-room clinic where limited medical care was available to those without resources. The lady's grandson is a recently board-certified Swiss-Bengali pediatrician. During his medical training and residency in Basel he decided to devote a few years to the continuation of his grandmother's project. He raised funds in Switzerland and organized contacts in Calcutta. As a result, they have recently inaugurated a new and well-equipped full service clinic at the site of the old Charity Home. Free medical and pharmaceutical care will be available from volunteer practitioners in three parallel systems: homeopathic, ayurvedic, and Western -- according to patients' preferences. Shadhika will provide funding to develop and maintain an electronic technical reference library for the clinic.