October 24, 2026 05:58 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Jamia shifts classes online after clash over demand for student union polls; Congress MPs face allegations | Deadly mid-air collision: Four pilots killed as two military aircraft crash in Philippines | ‘Jihad’ calls, Modi assassination remarks: Mumbai Rapido driver arrested over alleged Jaish links | Vegetarian-only kitchen at Keralam Lok Bhavan? Governor's reported order triggers political backlash | ‘Another little Epic Fury’: Trump’s chilling warning to Iran as fresh US strikes loom | Bomb threat email names Amitabh Bachchan’s Jalsa bungalow, Diljit Dosanjh’s concert venue: Reports | ‘Face-offs still continue’: ITBP chief reveals fresh India-China border tensions in Arunachal | Eiffel Tower women staff row: BAPS monk blames ‘miscommunication’, denies delegation's role | ‘Pen, not stones and guns’: RSS-linked group opens its first office in Kashmir Valley under Muslim leader | First human case of Shamonda virus reported in France; WHO confirms death of immunocompromised patient

Rotary Club of Calcutta Metro City donates medicine to Thalassaemia Society of India

| @indiablooms | Sep 18, 2017, at 11:06 pm
Kolkata, Sep 18 (IBNS): Rotary Club of Calcutta Metro City recently donated Desifer oral medicine worth Rs 59,500 to the Thalassaemia Society of India for the treatment of underprivileged thalassaemic children.

Approximately 350 children and young adults undergo blood transfusion and iron chelation at their Muktaram Babu Street day care centre in Kolkata.

Rotary Club of Calcutta Metro City supports the centre through blood donation camps, medicines etc.

The Society runs a 14 bed day care centre providing subsidized and free facility to 350 patients.

Free pathological tests are organised for patients. Over 200 blood donations camps have been organized.

Rotary has been supporting the cause over the past three decades mainly through awareness camps, funds for equipment from different Rotary clubs of Switzerland, Italy, Germany.

Present on the occasion were Past District governor Shyamashree Sen, District Rotary Foundation Chair Jayanta Chatterji, Past District Secretary Subhojit Roy, Club President Bandana Das among others.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.