CALMED Presentation at Madrid Rotary Institute About 600 Rotarians and guests attended the Foundation Seminar on the 25th November, 2016 at the Hotel NH Euro, Madrid, as part of Rotary Institute. PDG Dr. Himansu Basu was invited to speak on our District’s award winning Calmed (Collaborative Action in Lowering of Maternity Encountered Deaths) maternal and Read More
Calmed at RI Convention Seoul RI Convention in Seoul was a grand affair, with over 40 thousand registrants from 120 countries, but the spread-out city of 10 million people meant long journeys to Conference morning and evening. Speakers There was a galaxy of eminent speakers including RI President Ravi , Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Read More
Calmed at Seoul RI Convention 2016 Come and see us at the Rotary International Convention at Seoul on 28 May – 1 June 2016. Find PDG Dr Himansu Basu at the Calmed Booth (No 2609), or hear him at our Calmed workshop: 31 May: ‘Interactive Workshop on CalmedVTT’ at Kintex 2 Room 308 or 1st Read More
Calmed Leader Receives Rotary ‘Champion of Change’ Award PDG Dr. Himansu Basu – Rotarian, retired Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Programme Director of the RotCh Ch awardary / Calmed project – received a Rotary (Great Britain and Ireland) ‘Champion of Change’ award at a ceremony held in the House of Lords on the 20th April, 2016. Read More
Calmed VTT3 Return to India: Bhuj and on to Sikkim 2016 2 March Contd: Day 3 of our Return visit to Bhuj. Our Training Course at Bhuj continued with lectures, break out groups and hands on skills practice – the last was the most popular amongst the trainees. Even Master trainers from the Government Skills Read More
VTT Visits Bhuj 2016 Tuesday 1st March – it was a bright sunny day, started with lectures on Infection control, obstetric emergencies and raised blood pressure. These were followed by discussions, demonstration of videos and break out sessions with hands on training on skills equipment. Throughout the day the training was undertaken by the group Read More
Blog update from PDG Dr Himansu Basu left home on a cold windy morning on Thursday last (25th Feb 2016); arrived in Mumbai on a warm early morning .This was quite a challenge to the system. Met my fellow VTT member, Dr Ishita Mishra at Mumbai airport on Friday on way to Bhuj. We arrived Read More
Spreading the Calmed Message PDG DR Himansu Basu continues to spread the word about the Calmed initiative to reduce unnecessary Maternal deaths, through our Rotary VTT missions. The Calmed strategy attacks the unnecessarily high death rates among mothers and their babies, particularly in India and other ‘hotspots’ through transfer of knowledge and skills to the Read More