By Dr Carolin Elizabeth George | Head - Community Health Division
Dear donors,
Thank you for your continued support, which helps run our healthcare initiatives in the villages where we work.
We kept the mobile clinic moving through the villages that needed it most. We ran health camps, referred patients for treatment when they needed more than we could provide, and kept showing up at the same doorsteps for people who could not reach the mobile clinics. Here are three of those stories: a farmer back on his feet, a community leader now leading in a new way, and a family who has had our support for fifteen years.
Hanumappa is 66, a farmer, and everyone in his village knows him for his goats, cows, and silkworms. Our health camp detected his diabetes early last year. Then, in April, the mobile clinic referred him to our Mother Theresa Hospital in the village for a urinary infection. Doctors there said he needed more specialised care at Bangalore Baptist Hospital. “I needed surgery, and I didn’t have the money to pay. But they told me they would reduce the cost, and I had the surgery,” Hanumappa recalls. Hanumappa still talks about the BBH staff and how quickly they identified what was wrong. He calls it his second birth, and he is back on his farm, doing the same work he has always loved.
Rajanna leads his community in his village. “My blood pressure is always high. I don’t know how to bring it down,” he told our healthcare worker. We brought him to our mobile clinic, where the doctors listened to his concerns and began treatment. Regular treatment brought his blood pressure down and restored his day-to-day life. Now he volunteers at our camps, using the trust people already have in him to bring hesitant neighbours through our doors.
Janardhan lives with high blood pressure, diabetes and Elephantiasis. These conditions have taken away his ability to walk, to work, even to be there for his wife and son. For the past 15 years, our team has brought his medicines straight to his door instead of asking him to come to us. That one change has kept him stable and given his wife and son a kind of assurance that someone is there for them.
These are just three of the stories from this quarter, but there are many more like them in the villages we visit. None of this happens without you. Thank you for keeping our clinic on the road and for standing by the families who count on it most.
In gratitude,
Carol
By Dr Carolin Elizabeth George | Head, Community Health Division
By Dr Carolin George | Head, Community Health Department
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