River restoration in Nashik
With the support of panchayat president and local farmers, RC Nasik, RID 3030, has rejuvenated the Nandini River, a tributary of Godavri River, by desilting an 8km stretch. This river restoration project would save 480 million litres of monsoon water from running off downstream.
J K Maini Precision Technology funded the project through a CSR grant of ₹5 lakh. The entire river bed was cluttered with assorted dumps and silting over many years. Following its tradition of restoring many check dams in the past, the club has desilted a large stretch of the tributary that passes through Nashik. Club president Gaurav Samnerkar inaugurated the desilting work.
Cataract surgery camps in RID 3120
Eye-screening camps are held in partnership with R J Shankara Eye Hospital in villages and semi-urban areas by Rotary clubs of RID 3120. A three-year MoU was signed with the hospital with a target of 15,000 free cataract surgeries every year. The agreement was inked under the guidance of the then DG Ashutosh Agrawal.
Till February, over 16,000 patients were screened at the OPD and more than 1,600 surgeries were done in places like Varanasi, Mirzapur, Prayagraj, Sultanpur, Mau and Lucknow. Patients diagnosed with cataract are transported to the hospital, where they receive free accommodation, nutritious meals, medicines, surgery, and post-operative care.
Doctors visit the camp sites after a month for a post-operative check-up and guide the beneficiaries.
Ambulance on Pune-Nashik highway
The emergency medical services (EMS) at the Accord Multispecialty Hospital, Moshi, have got a boost with RC Pune Heritage, RID 3131, donating an ALS ambulance fitted with an ICU ventilator and defibrillator. The project cost ₹21 lakh, and Skye Batteries was the CSR partner.
Located centrally on the Pune-Nashik highway, the hospital caters to victims of road accidents and industrial mishaps, and rising instances of cardiac and stroke emergencies in this region. The ambulance will cover a radius of 20–25km.
Mobile cancer screening in RID 3250
PDG Bipin Chachan handed over a cancer screening van, a GG project ($89,207) of RC Jamshedpur West, RID 3250, and RC Suwong-Nosong, RID 3750, Korea, to the Meherbai Tata Memorial Hospital (MTMH). The project was a joint initiative of MTMH, Rotary, Tata Steel Foundation and RSB Foundation which contributed a CSR fund of $22,000.
DG Namrata flagged off the van at the district conference in Ranchi in December. Club members have contributed $29,000 for the project. In the first three months, the mobile clinic covered 29 places in Jharkhand and Odisha through 54 camps. Over 1,000 people were screened for oral cancer; 181 women had PAP smear test done to rule out cervical cancer; and 147 women underwent mammogram test, all free of charge. n