1. Today is a bandh (general strike) in this region. It is the
57th bandh of this financial year. A bandh does quite a lot of damage to the
state. Kindly pray that there will be a change in the social milieu of this
region where people will be able to live peacefully and without hitches. I hear
that before the end of this month, there will be 2 more bandhs.
2. We have a young boy of about 4 years admitted today evening.
We strongly suspect if it is an index case of viral encephalitis which was quite common last year. He is totally unconscious. We have started him on antibiotics
and anti-viral drugs. He's made some improvement. Please pray that he makes a complete recovery.
3. Last week, we’ve had quite a number of visitors. We thank
the Lord that everything went smoothly. There were no bandhs during their period
of visit, the trains were all on time, nobody fell sick, the weather was good .
. . lots of things to be thankful about.
4. As expected, after the implementation of RSBY in the
hospital, there has been a steady increase in the patients. Any day we would be
breaking through the magic 200 outpatient barrier. We thank the Lord that we are
becoming more accessible to the poor. Till date, there have been about 80
outpatients and 25 inpatients treated under RSBY. I've not been able to post about many very sick patients including maternal near misses we've had over the last month. We thank the Lord for all the patients.
5. We thank the Lord for journey mercies for all of our staff
who were travelling. Especially Dr Titus, who was at Herbertpur for the Medicine
CME.
6. The burns unit construction is on steady progress. Kindly
continue to pray for the needs as well as speedy progress of the work.
7. We are delighted to have facilitated a workshop on Advocacy last week at Ranchi. We thank the Lord for the work happening through Mr. Mark
Delaney. We’ve formed a forum for furthering this endeavour. Kindly pray that
the Lord will use us to minister to the poor and the marginalised through this.
8. We are coming to the end of this financial year. We thank
the Lord for the all the progress and learning we had. Kindly pray that the Lord
will give us discernment to evaluate well on how we fared and on how we should
go ahead.
9. Summer has already arrived. It is quite hot and we depend on
the Lord for seeing us through the harsh weather especially with regard to availability of water until rains come. Kindly pray for the health of all staff
during the very hot summer.
10. We’ve 3 staff expecting babies within the next month.
Kindly pray for each of them – Sr. Chandrakala, Sr. Kanchan and Dr Angeline. We
thank the Lord that one of our staff kids was saved miraculously from a possible
serious burn injury. Boiling milk fell on Anush, 2 years old, daughter of Sr.
Deepti and she escaped with about 3% of scalding of the chest. It could have
been worse.
11. The NH 75 which connects us to Ranchi and Daltonganj is in
quite a bad shape. In addition, we had been having accidents on a regular
basis. Over the last week, 2 people lost their lives. Kindly pray that the road
repair work would progress fast and we would have good roads at the earliest.
12. We thank the Lord for the installation of fire fighting equipment in the hospital early this month. Kindly pray that we would never be
able to use it.
13. We thank the Lord for the smooth functioning of the neonatal unit. We already feel the pressure of a high rate of admission. We need a full time paediatrician
in addition at least couple of warmers and phototherapy units.
14. We continue to be on the look out for a physician and an
additional surgeon. There are vacancies for at least 2 more BSc nurses and 4 GNM nurses for the smooth functioning of the unit. EHA plans to present North Indian
mission is a Church Camp at Kothamangalam, Kerala during the Passion Week.
Kindly pray for Dr Sam David who will be giving the challenge to the believers
attending the camp towards outreach missions in North India. Kindly pray that
the Lord will move the hearts of committed young men and women to respond to the
needs of the places like ours.
15. Dr. Nandamani is on his way to Vellore for attending a
worshop on Secondary Hospital Posting for MBBS Students from CMC, Vellore.
Kindly pray for his travel as well for each of the students who would be
visiting us in the last week of April.
16. Today is World TB Day. TB patients make a major chunk of our clinical work. Incidentally over the last 2 weeks we had 7 patients for whom
we had to put a chest tube. Please pray for the work we do is a source of hope
for each tuberculosis patient who comes to us. Dr Johnson leads the TB work at
NJH along with Mr. Manohar, Mr. Sunil and Mrs Namitha.
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