At every possible opportunity, Calcutta Rescue patients are given health education, delivered in an accessible way with a minimum of text and lots of pictures. CR's Health Education service emphasizes the idea that ‘prevention is better than cure - prevention is only possible if knowledge is in place'.

Our health educators work to deliver a comprehensive 22 point Health Education programme –

• Breastfeeding
• Weaning Food/Nutrition
• Thyroid Dysfunction
• Vitamin A
• Communicable Disease
• Hygiene/Sanitation
• Immunisation
• ORS/Diarrhoea
• Scabies
• STD/HIV
• Medicines/Inhalers
• TB Health Education
• Family Planning
• Diabetes/Heart
• Thalassaemia
• Leprosy/Wound Care
• Bites
• Eye Care
• Defaulting
• Epilepsy
• Malaria