Southern Health Improvement Samity (SHIS) is a committed voluntary organization and NGO of West Bengal, with multifaceted community development and health care. SHIS had its humble beginning in 1979 with a TB clinic as a Flagship programme on a roadside thatched hut, which grew to be the largest and most successful NGO of the state in the field of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (R
NTCP) operating 7 TB units and 33 DMC's on behalf of GOI & GOWB, covering 10 blocks of Sunderbans delta region and Malda. We also run Mobile Health Care Services (MHCS), initially under State Health Systems Development Project (SHSDP) under World Bank and now under Health & Family Welfare Dept., Govt. of West Bengal, with 1464 clinics spread over 183 villages, of 9 Sunderbans blocks of North & South 24 Parganas in remote, inaccessible, riverine & unserved islands of biggest Delta of the world, habitated by over 4 million underprivileged & marginalised people with 4 fully equipped (X-Ray and Pathology) and staffed Motor Boat Dispensaries. We also run 50 bedded multispecialty Eye Care Hospital, Arsenic Mitigation and Sanitary Mart, Schools for 1st generation literate including poor children, girls and hearing impaired, anti-Malaria measures, Reproductive and Child Health and Institutional Delivery, Herbal Medicine and Women Empowerment through Self Help Group for extending Micro Credit to 3700 SHG units for self-sustaining ventures.