Noble Past – Visioned Future 6 October 2010
Posted by Bill Lovett in On the Pilgrim's Road, Understanding Others.Tags: Hospital, India, mission
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Member of Directorate shares his vision of the future
day in Outpatients; being scored as Number 2 in India, etc. Perhaps most interesting is that CMC could be really important for Christ.
Old Diseases, Old Places. Old pace too? 29 September 2010
Posted by Bill Lovett in Hospital News.Tags: Hospital, India
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Shoes at the rubber mill
Not everything in modern India is like Mumbai, big, flashy, modern, extreme. Karigiri Hospital was in a quite different India. Rural, dealing with “old” diseases, in this case – leprosy, quiet, even sleepy in the heat. Classic mission hospital. We went to look and see if we could make a contribution. Like many other mission hospitals, this was founded by a missionary doctor in 1955, in a disease that was then greatly feared and is still viewed with anxiety. The original vision was to build a facility in Vellore town (Tamil Nadu), but public anxiety was such that the doctors were offered 260 acres of wilderness 20 kilometres out of town.
Since then Karigiri Hospital has grown into a 150 bed institution specialising in leprosy, dermatology, and offering general surgery and general medicine alongside a school of nursing, and a research centre. Leprosy is on the decline, but it has not gone away and had been put into the shade by the great efforts being made on HIV/AIDs.
Mumbai – city of giants? 25 September 2010
Posted by Bill Lovett in On the Pilgrim's Road.Tags: development, Hospital, India, witness
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- Bill at Lok Hospital
Mumbai or Bombay. Imagine the volume of Hyde Park Corner, add the intensity of M25 roadworks, throw in torrential rain, rickshaw wallahs, stray cows, and you have Mumbai. Everything is large squalid and splendid, huge apartment blocks, alongside myriads of people scurrying hither and thither. Chaos it is not, it is just that the scale is different. Call it Third World if you must, but what we saw could only be appreciated in comparison with inner-urban London, and had nothing in common to rural Uganda, to Kisiizi.
