MRCS helps in natural calamities, health education, providing First Aid and First Aid Courses, and in various social and community services.

A) Mauritius Red Cross contributes to the improvement of health, prevention of disease and mitigation of suffering by programmes of training and services for the benefit of the community. These are adapted to national and local needs and circumstances in conformity with the objects and purposes of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

(B) Mauritius is not involved in war or conflicts.
We appreciate the substantial subsidies and grants we obtain for our Red Cross activities from the Republic of Mauritius and assistance with the Clinical Attachment Training Scheme of our Aides-Soignants members by the Ministry of Health in recent years.
As we did in 1968 and 1972 the Mauritius Red Cross continues to offer its help to the Ministry of Health of this country in connection with any Nurses strike or go-slow, which would inevitably increase the suffering of innocent hospital and dispensary patients.
We offer our services with no intention of taking sides in any syndical or political action.
We have a reserve team of qualified, non- practicing nurses who are assisted by our first aiders who have passed the initial, intermediate or proficiency exams and by aides- soignants members and by our professional first aid instructors

Social welfare activities:

  • Members lend a helping hand to people with disabilities by visiting residential homes. Our Aides-Soignants (Nurses Aids) qualified through our Training Unit assist in this activity.
  • Visits to the needy in hospices and nursing homes
  • Recreational activities are organised for the elderly living in nursing homes and for children being cared for in orphanages.