Americares India NewsAmeriCares India Receives Prestigious Award from Indo-American Chamber of Commerce AmeriCares India wins IACC Chamber of Commerce Award for Best International NGO working on Humanitarian Issues in India. Read more.
11/12/09 As Deadly Floods Displace Millions, AmeriCares Mounts Relief Efforts in India An AmeriCares team in India is responding to the disaster with medicines, medical supplies and disaster aid. Read more.
10/09/09 AmeriCares India’s Dr. Parikh wins prestigious Wockhardt Medical Excellence Award Although cancer rates in India are on the rise with increased tobacco use, poor diet and pollution, the silver lining is that a greater number of patients are seeking treatment due to greater awareness and a willingness to see the doctor. One of the challenges is the lack of medical professionals to treat them.
10/08/09 Saving Residents From Flu in Mumbai In Mumbai, AmeriCares India doctors and medical personnel are taking a stand against influenza, hosting vaccination camps throughout the region. The goal: to keep India’s most vulnerable populations safe from the harmful effects of the flu virus.
09/01/09 Children's Health in India: First Doctor's Visit at Age 10 Imagine not being able to see a medical doctor until you were 10 years old and faced with a potentially deadly health problem like malnutrition, worm infestation, or an infection or disease. Read more and learn what you can do to help.
07/16/09 AmeriCares Helps Survivors of Cyclone Aila in India In response to deadly Cyclone Aila, AmeriCares recently sent medical aid and disaster relief experts to eastern India where more than 5 million people were left homeless. Read more and see how you can help.
06/18/09 Fighting Malnutrition in India From the slums in Mumbai to remote villages in Bihar, nutritional support has been delivered to help some of India’s most vulnerable children. Working with our local partner, Project Concern International (PCI), AmeriCares recently supplied 240,000 packets of high-energy biscuits to malnourished children living in flood-ravaged Bihar, India.
06/15/09 Orissa Tornado Victims Receive Aid from AmeriCares India AmeriCares India’s emergency response experts recently provided lifesaving medical supplies and care to victims of a fierce tornado that swept through rural Orissa.
05/21/09 AmeriCares India Helps School Children in Mumbai Students at municipal schools in Mumbai received nutritional supplements from AmeriCares.
01/27/09 AmeriCares Continues Its Commitment In Myanmar AmeriCares sends new shipment to Myanmar of humanitarian medical aid to continue relief and recovery efforts for Cyclone Nargis.
01/27/09 Talk on Disaster Medical Relief - The AmeriCares Experience AmeriCares and The American Center, Mumbai cordially invite you to a talk on Disaster Medical Relief - The AmeriCares' experience. Wednesday 17th December 2008 Time 6:00 PM.
12/03/08 Voice from the Field: Report from Post-Flood Bihar, India Dr. Purvish Parikh, Managing Director of AmeriCares India, reports from Bihar, which is slowly recovering from the worst India floods in more than 50 years. The poorest of India’s states, Bihar is struggling with more than 3 million people displaced by the disaster. Dr. Parikh surveyed health conditions at several flood-survivor camps, delivered medicines and treated children without access to a doctor.
10/14/08 AmeriCares Launches Additional Aid for Myanmar Recovery AmeriCares was one of the first humanitarian aid organizations to land an airlift of medical relief into Yangon, Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis left more than 100,000 dead and destroyed housing and healthcare. The airlift included over 15 tons of medicines and supplies for the Burmese people affected by the cyclone, including communities within the destroyed Irrawaddy Delta region.
10/13/08 Fighting the Cholera Outbreak in Iraq Iraqi woman stands beside her child’s hospital bed. According to the Centers for Disease Control, Cholera is easily treated and fewer than 1% of patients die if they receive prompt attention.
10/01/08 AmeriCares India Opens Base of Operations in Mumbai AmeriCares has been delivering lifesaving medicines and medical supplies to India for more than 15 years. In that time, we’ve delivered more than $45 million worth of aid. Our commitment to the region has deepened even more and we’ve just opened our doors at AmeriCares India to help us with our goals.
09/30/08 Health Concerns Rise as Indian Flood Waters Finally Ebb When a turbulent monsoon broke through the levees in Bihar, India, three million people were displaced by massive flooding the likes of which hadn’t been seen in 50 years. In response, AmeriCares is working with our local partners to deliver life-saving medicines, nutritional support and other humanitarian aid to help people impacted by the devastating floods.
09/18/08 AmeriCares Delivering Aid to India in Wake of Flooding Recent flooding in India, the worst experienced in 50 years, has displaced over two million people within the 16 districts of Bihar, India’s poorest state. AmeriCares emergency response team is working with our local health care and pharmaceutical partners to deliver medicines, nutritional supplements and hygiene items to help the people in the flood-affected communities.
08/29/08 AmeriCares Invests in Disaster Preparedness: Explosions in India Highlight Need Among the 17 back-to-back bombings that rocked western India this past weekend were two explosions at Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital, where many of those injured in the earlier blasts had been taken for emergency treatment. The hospital’s trauma center was damaged in the explosion, but medical providers remained calm and focused during the crisis, which can be attributed in part to their participation in a disaster management training program supported by AmeriCares.
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