Sunil Kumar Kushwaha is a 19-year-old man from a village in north Bihar. Three years ago, he was involved in a motorcycle accident and injured his spinal cord. From the nearby hospital, he was referred to a hospital in Delhi and after a brief period of rehabilitation, he returned home, facing the life-long challenge of …
An Account of CBR from the Founder, Mary Ellen Sellers
On a hot and dusty day, my colleague Silas and I arrive in front of a small house in a rural village in Bihar. Silas and I, working with Duncan Hospital’s Community Based Rehabilitation Project (CBR), have come to meet a child with a disability who lives with her parents and her extended family in …
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EHA brings hope to people with disabilities.
Almost one billion people in our world live with disabilities. Many of them and their families are trapped in a unending cycle of poverty, pain and despair. The problem is particularly onerous in rural North India where poverty, the prevailing belief system, ignorance and inadequate services take a heavy toll on people with disabilities, particularly …
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Mother Teresa International Award 2019
Vijay Anand of Madunda EHA Hospital was honoured to receive the Mother Teresa International Award 2019 for outstanding achievement and contribution to Medicine and Social Work from Justice Shyamal Sen, Former Governor of West Bengal and Chief Justice of Kolkata and Allahabad High Courts at the East Zone Cultural Centre in Kolkata on the 18th …
EHA Responds to Severe Flooding in Kerala
Photo Credit: news18.com | Banner Image from EHA India Original Post ehausa.org India’s monsoon season has taken a deadly turn in the southern state of Kerala, a region devastated by recent flooding. Some parts of Kerala received over a foot of rain in one day, and the state saw over three times its seasonal rainfall …
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