Swimming against the tide

During a time, when we get quite a lot of news on how evil the medical profession is and how fast the healthcare industry is becoming one of the most preferred when it comes to profiteering, I was quite relieved to find a story in the national press about a young doctor who has been making quite a lot of change in a remote region of Jharkhand. 

Photo from The Hindu article

Garu PHC is one of the most remote Primary Health Centres in the country. I know it well since the place is quite near to NJH. We get quite a lot of our poor patients from this region. 

The area is quite picturesque and I've written about it some time earlier. In fact, there is quite a beautiful waterfall in this area. 

The local press has been writing quite a lot about the work that Dr. Amresh has been doing in Garu. Our friends serving in the schools and dispensaries has also been telling about the good things that Dr. Amresh has done in that region. 

I hope that Dr. Amresh's story will be passed around and more people would know and appreciate the work that he is doing. And of course, a word of encouragement and praise would do a lot of good. 

May his tribe increase. And I wish that stories similar to that of Dr. Amresh be passed around and appreciated.  

Miracle of the night

After quite a long period of a lull in high risk obstetrics, we've had something to cheer about tonight. 

And it was extra-special after we had a dubious record of 3 maternal deaths happening over a period of 72 hours. I shall definitely post about that later. But, before that, the cheerful item. 

If you look carefully the baby above, you'll notice that the right hand and left leg are swollen. In fact the right posterior aspect of the head is also swollen up, which was not captured in the snap. 

This baby's mother had been in active labour since late evening yesterday. Deep within the jungles of the Palamu Tiger Reserve somewhere near Garu, it took the family almost a whole day to realise that she would not deliver normally like her previous 4 pregnancies. 

The family took her to the Catholic dispensary nearby from where the sisters brought her here. 

It was a compound presentation. The right hand and left leg were already hanging out of the vagina and the head was pressing hard on it. 

We did the surgery within an hour. 

The mother is anemic. We're yet to get blood. The baby has aspirated quite a lot of meconium. 

Kindly pray that there would not be any further complications. 

Satbarwa's Niagara

We had gone for a trip to a hostel run by the Catholic Church in a place called Garu. It was quite a hectic day for the team as we had to see through approximately 300 children. There was an epidemic of fever going on in the place since one week and that was the reason we were called for.

After everything was over, the authorities in charge of the hostel asked us if we would like to visit a waterfall nearby. It was just about a kilometer and therefore we decided to visit. And wow . . . it was worth the trip.

Well, the trip was also quite picturesque too. A few snaps from the trip. Unfortunately, I was quite tired after a very hectic week. And was more tired after the camp. Thanks to our dentist, Dr Basil and our engineer, Mr. Dinesh who ensured that we have enough photographs of the trip.

The last picture was the best thing that our kids enjoyed during the journey. We had to cross 10 such sections of the river running over the road during the journey. And Dinesh, who drove us ensured that all those with the windows open got sprayed with the water. The snap would surely make it to the Annual Report next year.

Shall post details of the Medical Camp after I get the blood tests too.