The Rotary clubs of Greater Cochin,The City of Wolverhampton, Golders Green and Newcastle under Lyme joined hands to provide state of the art medical equipment and technology in a Taluk hospital at Ernakulam near Cochin, Kerala, Southern India with a Rotary Foundation global grant project valued at $31,486.

The hospital specialises in care for the needy; the equipment comprises an ultrasound scanning machine and a fully automatic biochemistry analyser to improve diagnosis and treatment outcomes. 

In thanking the Rotarians, the superintendent at the hospital, Doctor Sobha said “the introduction of the ultrasound scan has resulted, with a sonologist who attends regularly, in an enormous improvement in the working atmosphere; the fully automatic biochemistry analyser is a real asset. We are completing tests in a much shorter time and at minimal cost. Our area is where very poor people live who could not afford the high cost of treatment at private hospitals, so this unit is a very great relief to them.  We are extremely grateful to Rotary for this wonderful project.”