In its role as provider of medical care to Kolkata’s poor, CR has to constantly make difficult decisions about those who receive major treatment and those who do not.  Often, we are persuaded to favour treatments with a public health aspect for its multiplier effect; however, this means that individuals in real need are sidelined as a result of the limitations of our financial resources. We always have patients whom we find too expensive to treat from our regular funds  –  the decision not to fund an operation or a course of treatment is always a very difficult one to take. 

How do we address this problem ? In these cases, we seek to find personal sponsors who are willing to take responsibility for the long term provision of care and medicine for individual patients. By seeking generous individuals who can sponsor, or partially sponsor, a patient, they can receive the appropriate treatment for their condition and potentially live a full and long life.

Please see below for information on patients for whom we are seeking sponsorship - please let us know if you can help pay for their treatment !  Please contact info@calcuttarescue.org for more information.

Name: ARCHANA GAYEN

Age: 35 years

Sex: Female

Condition: Heart Disease

Card No.: 28906

Clinic: Sealdah

Family Information- Family consists of 2 members with no children.

Economic Status- Archana’s husband is a street salesman, earning Rs. 80 to Rs 100 per day, but not every day. They have their own one-room house, with electricity and a tile roof.

Social & personal details- Studied up to Class-V, likes to eat vegetables, dislikes quarreling, enjoys watching television and gardening. Really wants to get better !

Medical History- Archana enrolled at CR’s Sealdah clinic in February 2009 suffering from heart disease, and requires heart valve replacement surgery at a government hospital which costs Rs 100,000 (€ 1,735).

Name: AZIZUL LASKAR

Age: 16 years

Sex: Male

Condition: Congenital Heart Defect

Card No.: 28929

Clinic: Sealdah

Social Background – Azizul’s family consists of 8 members, and he has 2 brothers aged 27 and 10.

Economic Status- His father is a rickshaw puller, earning Rs 100 to Rs 125 per day. They have their own house, with a tile roof but no electricity.  The family is entirely dependent on their father’s income.

Social & personal details: Studies up to Class VII. Likes to wear good clothes. Dislikes quarrelling. Really wants to get well !

Medical History- Azizul enrolled at CR’s Sealdah clinic in June 2009. He is now awaiting surgery to repair the hole in his heart at the government’s SSKM hospital which will cost approximately Rs 45,000 (€ 750).

Name: SUCHITRA SARDAR

Age:  4 years

Sex: Female

Condition: Cardiac

Card No.: 28894

Clinic: Sealdah

Social Background- Family consists of 7 members. Suchitra has 3 sisters aged 12, 6 and 2 years.

Economic Status- Father is a van puller earning Rs 50 to Rs100 daily. They have their own house consisting of one room with no electricity.

Social & personal details- No formal education. Likes to eat fish and biscuits, and loves watching television.

Hobbies: Likes reading picture books. 

Medical History- Suchitra was enrolled as a patient with CR in December 2008 with convulsions, and was diagnosed as suffering from a congenital heart defect. Surgery at the SSKM to treat her condition will cost Rs 65,000 (€1,100).

Name: MUZAHAR SHEIKH

Age: 46 years

Sex: Male

Condition: Cardiac

Card No: OTT 70

Clinic: Sealdah

Muzahar is a patient from the Maldah district in northern West Bengal who enrolled in CR in November 2009. He requires heart valve replacement surgery which will cost a total of Rs 1,41,511/- (€ 2,350). He has managed to raise Rs 87,000 (€ 1,450) of funding from relief organisations but still requires Rs 54,511 (€ 900) to pay for this urgent surgery.

Name: SUKLA GHOSH

Age: 39 years

Sex: Female

Condition: Kidney Disease

Since 2007, Sukla has chronic kidney disease causing her to suffer from fever, vomiting, and swelling of the face and feet . She has been on dialysis and then also had a kidney transplant with stenting in March 2008. Her mother was the donor. She is making regular visits to the government hospital and her condition is stable at present. Her medication and ongoing treatment costs Rs 3500/- per month (€ 60 per month).

 Name: SUSMITA  ADHIKARI

Age: 15 years

Sex: Female

Condition: Cardiac

Card No: OTT 65

Clinic: Sealdah

Social Background- Family consists of 4 members.

Economic Status- Father works as a daily labourer and mother works in a brick field together earning Rs 1500 per month. They have their own house with no electricity. They do not posses any land of their own.

Medical History- Susmita enrolled as a patient with CRK in June 2009 with congenital heart defects. She needs surgery to repair the defect which will cost Rs 58,000/-  (€ 960).

Name: KAJOL SARDAR

Age: 35 years

Sex: Female

Condition: Deep Vein Thrombosis

Kajol has been suffering from pain, and swelling with redness of her left leg for last 3 months. She has been diagnosed with Deep Vein Thrombosis and needs medication costing Rs 15,000/- (€ 240) a month. Without this medication, she will die from complications arising from her condition.