EHA

On the 1st of September 2010 Baptist Christian Hospital Launched “Kiran – A ray of hope” a Community Health and Development Program in Arunachal. The Program is in partnership with the Bristol Meyer Squibb Foundation and the Jesuit Society Arunachal. The project Goal is “to empower children and their families in East and West Kameng districts of Arunachal for primary prevention and health promotion so as to enable the people to lead a healthy, safe and fulfilling life with dignity, with a focus on liver disease”.

The program will work with communities in the backward districts of the state for the improvement of maternal and child health and outcomes.

On 4th August night, Nubra town had suffered significant damage from a cloud burse, and radio had reported some 12 deaths. On the morning of the 6th, the radio was silent and phones unresponsibe. The BSNL office, the Bus Stand, the Hospital, everything below the [entrance to Leh] gate... all gone. The people of Ladakhi had never seen anything like it, nor had anyone else in living memory. (The entrance to Leh is grandly decorated by a colorful and ornate Buddhist gate over the road, with prayer wheels and chortens on either side.). A cloud-burst had happened in a ravine above the Leh Gate, causing a huge torrent of water to rush down the ravine into the road, picking up stones, mud, bricks, cars, people, and houses as it went. All communication channels were taken out — no electricity, no telephone, no radio, no internet.