Nursing conference huge success

The Jubilee nursing conference was a huge success with fifty nine delegates and very educative sessions and a hands on CPR session in which all participants got involved.

Thanks to all the hardworking teams that pulled it off!

Portable ventilator arrives

Our portable ventilator is finally here! We have a Drager Carina which is a very good ventilator, for our ambulance. Now we are fully set up to transport critical patients to tertiary care centres. Thanks to our friends and donors!

Eye camp

Dr. Sandeep Anand is here performing eye surgery. He hopes to come intermittently to provide this service. Mr. Ram was a labourer from UP who came here to work in the apple orchards. Unfortunately he was nearly blind with bilateral cataract. It is a bit difficult to conceive of how one can work in an orchard when one is nearly blind. However, he was operated on one eye last time and today he undergoes another surgery on the other eye to restore his vision. We were able to give him concession and his orchard owner came forward to help. Thanks every one, thanks Dr. Sandeep.

Nose avulsion

A driver crashed his car into a shop, and took his nose off. It was put back together with difficulty.

 

 

Senior obstetrician to join

Dr. Saroj Chaudhary, a senior Obstetrician will be joining us on the 2nd of August. This is a huge answer to prayer.

Surgical work

There has been an increase in the surgical work here of late, with many more patients coming in for surgery. Last week we had a lady for total thyroidectomy, a twenty year old for an  abdominoperineal excision and a middle aged lady for a sigmoid colectomy. This is very demanding on one surgeon. Any surgeons around who might be interested?

CT Scan?

A  mountain trekker came to us with history of losing consciousness at high altitude. She was deeply unconscious, and we needed to put her on a ventilator, beside anti cerebral edema measures. However her clinical behaviour and pattern of unconsciousness were not fitting into HACE. She was transferred by ventilated ambulance to a tertiary centre where she turned out to have an intracerebral bleed.

A ct scan here would help many patients like this. Acute trauma and head injury, elective imaging for surgery all do require scanning, the nearest one being sixty kilometers away.

We would be dependant on donations for such a venture. The capital expenditure involved would not allow us to recover the cost with the numbers of scans we will do. We cannot enter the scenario commonly practiced of giving “kickbacks” to doctors perscribing it.  And that is where we are now.