Foundation for Health Action (FHA) is a non-profit organization (Trust)
without any connection with any political party. The organizers come
from different strata of the society, with various expertises with one
common goal of social service
| Mr. S.S Dasbairagi, |
Deputy Director of Accounts, Finance Dept. Govt. of West Bengal (Trustee) |
| Dr. Anup Sadhu, |
Head of Eco-Scan Centre, attached to Medical College, Calcutta (Trustee). |
| Dr. Asit Chakrabarti, |
Retired Professor, Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal (Trustee). |
| Smt. Krishna Sarkar | (Trustee) |
| Prof. Pijus K. Sarkar | is Managing Trustee |
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Prof. Sarkar is also the Resident Physician of Amader Hospital (our Hospital). The vision of this project has started from Dr. Pijus K. Sarkar. (http://infochangeindia.org/2006040243/Health/Changemaker/BODHI-Contuining-medical-education-for-healthcare-workers.html )
Dr.
P.K. Sarkar is a medical doctor by profession. As a Professor in
Medical Colleges in West Bengal for 35 years and as a Director of the
Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, he has seen the inadequacy of
Government to provide minimum healthcare to the citizens. Earlier he
also went to give medical services in a remote village in an island of
Sundarban of South Bengal and experienced the deplorable healthcare
condition in rural India. He has seen the system from both sides of the
fence and understood the root cause of the massive problem of healthcare
system in India.
After the retirement from the Government Services,
he along with his wife, Mrs. Krishna Sarkar, (a graduate nurse tutor by
profession, served Govt. of West Bengal for 38 years & retired as
Assistant Director of Health Services), has started this endeavor of
FHA. It took years to identify a suitable village in the tribal area of
Bankura. FHA has acquired a piece of land which is large enough to build
a residential quarter, a small clinic, a training centre and start the
cultivation as part of self-sustenance plan. The activity also includes
greening of the piece of land with fruit bearing and timber yielding
saplings. The startup expenses were primarily funded from FHA and
retirement proceeds of Dr. and Mrs. Sarkar.
FHA is well known to the people for its
publications of two bimonthly Medical Journals (Bulletin on Drug and
Health Information and Ashukh Bishukh in vernacular) http://www.isdbweb.org/members/index/0
for more than 10 years. Both the journals are members of International
Society of Drug Bulletins (ISDB). These two journals are well accepted
by the medical profession as well as common people for their scientific
information about drugs and diseases. Interestingly these two
inexpensive journals do not carry any commercial advertisements to
preserve their independence and to provide unbiased opinions.
The project has a dozen of active supporters and many donors:
Active supporters and participants:
Dr. Swapan Jana, a retired medical college teacher and a health activist for more than two decades.
Dr. RL Munichakrabarti, Former Prof. and Head of Architectural Engineering, IIT, Khargapur
Mr. Rambilash Behani, Tata Automobile Dealer, Malda. West Bengal .
Mrs. Malati Behani, Social Activist, Malda, West Bengal.
Dr. (Mrs) Subrata Bhadra, PhD, Retired Principal of College of Nursing , RG Kar Medical College , Calcutta .
Mr. Madhusudan Dhar, Retired Civil Service Officer, West Bengal Government.
Dr. (Mrs.) Sanjukta Das, Reader, PG Dept. of Psychology, Science College ,
Univ. of Calcutta
Prof. MN Majumdar, Former Head of the Dept. of Chemistry & Dean, Faculty of Science, Kalyani University , West Bengal .
More than one thousand supporters have donated (from Rs. one hundred to one hundred thousand) to FHA.
