Broken bones

One of the major changes in the profile of patients that we have been receiving of late is the major increase in road traffic accidents and of course the increase number of patients who come with fracture.

The major reason is obvious. The roads have become much better over the last 6 months. And vehicles move more faster than they used to earlier.

Day before yesterday, we had a passenger autorikshaw which went off the road. And there were 3 patients who had fractures of some sort.

And this is the time, we wish that we have an orthopaedician in our team.

Today morning, I had to go to Daltonganj for some work. In the 25 kilometer stretch, we had 2 accidents which happened over the last 24 hours. 

Considering into fact the recent new arrivals in the team at NJH, we are confident that we're in a better position to have more specialists coming in. And during 2013, an orthopedic consultant in the team would be a major item for prayer. 

No tears . . . No one to cry . . . (1)

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Yesterday was a black day for our region. 

25 villagers from our neighbouring village, Rankikala lost their lives as they were returning after migrant labour in neighbouring Bihar. There is hardly any newspaper which gave the full details. If it had happened with some well known people and in a town/city, you would have had much more details. 

We had gone to console the families who lost their loved ones. 

The snaps and details are below . . . 

The crowd was after where the leaders were going . . . 

More crowds . . . 

The locals had blocked the National Highway . . .

This autorikshaw contains 5 bodies . . .  a father and 4 children. The mother is admitted in Patna . . .

The local Member of Parliament, Mr. Inder Singh Namdhari

Bodies being loaded into a tractor for the final journey

This is 11 members of the same family. 

Interestingly, there was nobody to console. The remaining family members had accepted the grim reality without much fuss. 

Everybody was busy finding out how much money each of the survivors would receive from the government. 

More on this tragedy in a later post . . .