Author: Amrita
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Mobile Pharmacy in Jammu kashmir
Always working in cramped quarters, the pharmacy is our busiest department. Everyone is doing double duty as it is staffed by a dentist, veterinarian, nurse, doctor, and EMT. In addition to allopathic drugs, we are providing a large amount of nutritional support for both children and adults. The clinic shown above was held in a
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Traffic jam in the mountains
The main road to Kashmir was closed for flood related repairs for three days creating a huge backup. Our medical convoy got stuck in a 75 km line of trucks. What should have been a five hour journey turned to the next camp turned into thirty hours. Stopped high in a mountain pass, it was
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Blossoming from the Quagmire
An ill-fated lightening struck in the otherwise peaceful lives of the relatively educated and employed residents of Kedarnath. Huge landslides and floods ravaged everything they had ever possessed. Having experienced such a dreadful nightmare, a question arose in the minds of these hapless victims: “Will life ever be the same again?” However, in the presence
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Compassion from the Bus
We closed our day at Sub District Hospital Magum and were loading people and supplies onto the buses. But the patients kept coming, following the doctors. Having too much compassion to say no, they continued to write prescriptions from the bus. Such is life on the road with the relief work. -Scotti
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A precious gift to a mother from the Mother of Millions
16 Oct 2014, Bandipura, Jammu Kashmir Sub district hospital at Bandipura was short of doctors the day we reached there. After a short meeting with the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Bilkis and other officials, our doctors started attending to the needy. Our Gynae doctors got an emergency call. It was a delivery case. The
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Through the perilous twists and turns of the mountains
When our Telemedicine unit and ambulance unit arrived in Jammu, we were in Kashmir and came to know that the national highway had closed down for three days due to some bad road conditions. But where there is a will, there is a way. Few days before this, we had met a person (Sharma) who
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The wish fulfilling Mother of all
French Fries in Munich Recently at the Munich program, little Aikyam came up to Amma for his morning hello and kiss. Amma looked at him fondly and asked if he had eaten. Then she told him to wait and sent for something. When it arrived, Amma put something on a plate and offered it to
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Instant diagnostics
The Community Health Centers at Hajin and Magam have regular medical staff, but thousands of people showed up when they heard our team was there to supplement their work. After seeing a doctor, many are sent for blood tests in the Amrita Mobile Tele Medicine Unit. Blood is drawn in a clean, quiet environment reducing
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Organized relief in the midst of chaos in Kashmir
Today I joined the Amrita Hospital (Amrita Institute of Medical Science) Jammu and Kashmir Medical Relief Team who have already been working here four days. We set up at a small clinic in the rural village of Naidkhai, Bandipora District, Kashmir. This clinic is normally served by a single doctor for a population of 40,000.