Thankful

The last Friday of every month, the staff at the hospital meets together for a whole day of prayer where we remember the blessings we had over the past month and put forward specific prayer requests. On 29th November we met, and had a wonderful time of sharing the blessing we enjoyed over 2013 and thanking the Lord for each of them. 

Apologies for the delay in sharing these with you all . . .

Please join us in thanking the Lord for each of the blessings. 

1. The hospital has been done well in 2013 in spite of major challenges. The absence of a surgeon was a major challenge as traditionally we are known as a surgical centre. We thank the Lord that the requirements in terms of finances and other requirements have been met so far especially in the light of a salary revision this year. 

2. Sampoorn Development India, one like-minded organisation has facilitated the construction of a water-tank in the campus. The Lord willing, the construction should be over very soon. 

3. The hospital has got an exclusive electricity connection to the campus and the electricity supply to the region has improved tremendously with us getting an average of 20-22 hours of electricity every day. 

4. There was a portion of land which was donated to us by one of our staff about 2 decades back. Unfortunately, few of the locals had been preventing us from taking occupation of the land. The Lord worked in the minds of these locals and has enabled us to take possession of the land. We could construct a boundary for this land and last week, the Maintenance Department started to cultivate on this land. 

5. Our Community Health Projects have been doing well so far. The impact made by the Climate Change Project, Community Based Rehabilitation Project is being slowly seen in the community. 

6. Our engagement with the government has increased over the last year. In the sphere of Tuberculosis Control, the Tuberculosis Unit caters to a population of over 750,000 population and the Global Fund Project increases awareness about the disease in the district. The UNICEF had requested us to oversee the mentoring of Labour Room facilities in Palamu and Latehar districts, thereby influencing Reproductive and Child Health in the region. Today, we were informed that we have been once more been authorized to disburse funds under the Janani Suraksha Yojana. This scheme was discontinued about 2 years back saying that we did not qualify as we did not have the requisite facilities in terms of personnel. 

7. We live in a region with tremendous amount of social unrest. We estimate that our hospital vehicles travels an average of 300 kilometers every day. We thank the Lord for safety and protection from accidents. 

8. We had some amazing stories of miraculous healing over the last year. We thank the Lord for each of these patients. Many of these patients had come to us as a last resort. 

9. There have been few constructions in the hospital. We thank the Lord for the funds that has enabled us to do these constructions. Please remember the burns unit, critical care unit, the sarai etc.  for which we need more funds. 

10. We thank the Lord for the new staff who joined in 2013. Dr. Roshine Mary Koshy (Medicine Consultant), Dr. Grace Mary George (Medical Officer), Dr. Aroma Tirkey (Dentist), Ms. Meghala Ramasamy, Mr. Jonathan Hongsha (IT Manager), Ms. Sheron Mathew (Physiotherapist), Mr. Asherush (Pharmacist) and Mrs. Tavitha, Ms. Priyanka, Ms. Premadini (Staff Nurses). 

These are the first ten items of thanks and praise which came. There were many more . . . 

Water Tank, Progress

The progress of the water tank construction . . . in pictures . . .

Do continue to remember the construction in your prayers . . .

Dedication of the borewell

Only today did I realize that I did not put the snaps of the dedication of the borewell that was dug in the campus more than a week back. 

I could not believe my eye when we could put a 2.5 inch pipe attached to the motor. You can see for yourself the flow of water from the water pump. 

We read from Isaiah 35. 

Dr Pradhan cut the ribbon

The people who made it possible -
From right to left - Dinesh, our engineer; Mr. Shekhar, staff from Sampurn Development India; Mahendar, our Maintenance staff, Mr. Prashanth, staff from Sampurn Development India; Mr. Ilias, our Maintenance staff

Once again, our gratitude to Sampurn Development India and their staff. And all praises to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. 

Miracle . . .

Since the last couple of days, we were debating about the spot where we would try to dig the borewell for supplying water to the new water tank.

There were varied opinions. Our previous experience has not been very fruitful. At the places we thought there would be lots of water, we did not hit the water table even after 600 feet.

Mr. Prashant and Mr. Shekhar, the staff from Sampurn Development India who was facilitating the construction of the water tank suggested that we try a place which is very near to the water tank. All of us were quite skeptic.

We had our reasons. The place was the highest point in the campus. And the traditional belief was that the whole of the campus was on top of a large piece of graphite rock. And we had seen it in one of our previous experience of trying to put a borewell.

However, we decided to go ahead.

Well, to our surprise . . . we hit water at around 80 feet and there was quite a lot of it. The team decided to dig for a total of 300 feet. And we got water at 3 levels . . .

We praise and thank God for this abundance provision of water . . . 

Water Tank - Groundbreaking . . .

Snaps from the groundbreaking ceremony of the construction of the water tank . . .

The site . . .

Few of the staff and students who've assembled for the prayer and groundbreaking ceremony

Mr. Jayakumar, our Regional Director turning the first sod . . .

And then the bull-dozer took over . . .

This is the final result . . . Took only 4 hours to finish .. .. ..

Now they'll put a scaffolding of steel into this, raise up beams for the water tank and pour mortar into the beams . . .

Please pray that the work will finish soon . .. ...