The boat clinic is the initiative of the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES), a non-governmental trust working for social transformation in the Northeast. With 15 boats covering 13 districts, a team of 236 medical professionals reach out to nearly three million people — 12 percent of the state’s population; mostly peasants and fishermen — who live on nearly 2,500 island villages on the Brahmaputra. The main thrust of the project is to ensure health facilities for the marginalised people,” says C-NES communication officer Bhaswati Khaund Goswami. “Most of our boats carry a team of 15 members — two doctors, two-three nurses, a pharmacist, a lab technician, community workers and the boat crew. The boat has a pharmacy and a laboratory.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:30:00 +0000
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