Talk:Kalighat Home for the Dying

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Re-phrasing to somthing other than "Hospital"[edit]

Wiki referes to an hospital as "... an institution for health care provided by physicians, surgeons, nurses, and other professionals".

From what I have read, here people get a fieldbed and some food, otherwise they are left to die with little or no qualified care.

The home for the dying was refered to by Dr. Aroup Chatterjee, the author of the book Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict, as "... the grimmest place imaginable".

Additionaly acusations of sacramental baptisms have been performed on up to 30.000 of the dying (a majority of which were Hindus and Muslims), thus converting them to the Catholic faith surfaced in the 1990's.

Please researge and expand the article

Added criticisms of the Home for the Dying[edit]

You are correct, the place was a filth hole because the so called "saint" built convents with charity money instead of actually helping the poor. This section counts as one of the criticisms of Mother Teresa. Intranetusa 00:35, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In Kalighat, dying people have a shelter and some food, wich is much more than what poorest people have in India. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.50.67.145 (talk) 15:30, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I worked in Kalighat for one month in 1994 (June/July) as someone who had just graduated high school, I was just 20 years old. I certainly was not qualified in the medical sense, but I was there to help the people living in Kalighat to die in peace and dignity. We dealt with many different sicknesses, and some people died fast, some were there for the whole month. It is certainly not a dirty place. Part of what one has to understand is that this environment allowed people to pass away in a modest surrounding with much personal care and attention, and a surrounding they were used to. Medical needs were taken care of by qualified nurses and visiting MDs, at that time a wonderful doctor from Italy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The-yet-merciful (talk • contribs) 23:51, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]