Healthcare Sciences – Opportunity with EHA

Emmanuel Hospital Association gives the opportunity to students to serve in its hospitals through the system of sponsorship to graduate/diploma courses including MBBS, Nursing courses in Christian Medical Colleges, Vellore and Ludhiana. There are quite a lot of a number of people who took this opportunity and went on to leave lasting impressions in the areas they served.

For getting sponsorship, the prospective student would need to visit one of our hospitals for a period of 5 days. I write this post as there seems to very less information about this to most of such students who look for such an opportunity.

Over the last 3 years, I get flooded with calls/inquiries about the exposure visits during Feb/March. There are of course deadlines for such visits. Every year, it is the 30^th of March of that year by which the exposure visit needs to be completed.

We’ve a rush of students coming to be with us over the next 2 weeks. However, it would be much easier for us if the visits are planned much in advance. Only one student had come to us in December over the last 3 years.

Therefore, this post is mainly for all those who’ve just finished their 10^th standard exams or going to start 12^th standard (+2). We appreciate if you could come for your exposure visits in a much more planned manner.

Please do share this information with your friends and relatives who could find this beneficial. For more information, you can visit the EHA website and also write to sponsorship@eha-health.org  

Exposure Visit

Couple of days back, we did an exposure visit of the agriculture work that Samaj Vikas Sanstha, the social work wing of the Daltonganj diocese is doing in Chandwa/Balumath block of Latehar district. 

Below are snaps from the visit . . . 

This is how it looked when we left the hospital. Visibility of around 5-10 metres.

Interacting with the villagers

Fr. Regi interacting with our staff . . . 

The traditional washing of the hands of guests by the villagers . . . 

Fried rice balls dipped in hot jaggery. Never knew that such a simple recipe can be so tasty

Vermicompost . . . 

Innovation for a pulley . . .

Our team did some amount of walking around the fields . . .

Potato . . . Lucky to escape the cold 

Chick peas . . . 

System of wheat intensification . . . 

A monstrous radish . . . should be at least 5 kilograms . . . 

A family harvesting potatoes . . .

Returning home . . .

Medical students visiting . . .

As I mentioned in my previous post, one of the highlights of this week has been the visit by about a dozen medical college students, most of them from MGM Medical College, Jamshedpur and couple of them from Medical College, Gaya.

I’m not sure on how much the visit has excited them. However, few of us in the Emmanuel Hospital Association has been motivating medical students from nearby Medical Schools to visit us and see the work we do. 

Few snaps from the visit. 

Students watching yours truly preparing NB for Cesarian.
NB had come after about 15 episodes of seizures. 

Students watch proceedings in the neonatal unit. 

Ready for an outing to the dam

The dam . . . 

Again, at the dam . .  .

Nandamani's teaching rounds . . . 

Of course, there were times to relax . . . 

We hope the visit would expose the students to the realities of healthcare in rural India. Only time will tell if it has made any impact in their lives.