The SHIS Foundation, founded by Mohammed Abdul Wohab and Sabitri Pal, operates in the Sundarbans, West Bengal. They provide essential healthcare services in the area through many initiatives like boat clinics, tuberculosis control programmes, etc.
“A four-month-old baby was sick with fever. The family was unable to reach the hospital—their home was on an isolated island surrounded by vast paddy fields that were under waist-deep water. The house was almost ‘floating’.”