WE ARE BACK

Anant, Kevin and I (Pratik) have just boarded on our way to India via Dubai. We have a busy agenda lined up!

This time it's all about the RMPS (rural medical practitioners)

More details and Photos will come 

Lets make it a photo blog

We're back in Baltimore. The last two weeks in India were extremely packed, to say the least. Since a picture speaks a thousand words, we've decided to let our many pictures speak thousands of words themselves. This will be the first of many photo posts for our trip in India and as we progress through the year.

On the side of a truck. 

Greasy, delicious lunch. 

                     Observing a pacemaker implant
Flooding at SSKM hospital


SANJIBAN HOSPITAL VISIT

Hospital's own powerplant (left). It was Raksha Bandhan, a major Indian holiday celebrating sister-brother bonds, and many of the Hospital's staff, mainly nurses, tied rakhi's on our hand. It was a very touching moment - the right picture shows hospital staff tying a rakhi on Dr. Acharya's hand.

Pratiksha - waiting room for visitors and new patients (left). The hospital allows local nurseries to let their plants grow on the hospital grounds for free leading to a win-win situation. The hospital gets free landscaping and the nursery gets a place to grow their plants. 

Backup batteries for cardiac OR room. 

Survival of the fittest. 

Chatting with rural medical practitioners  

The team at School of Tropical Medicine in Calcutta. 

Very smart girl with two cute bunnies. 

Kevin attempts to capture the bunny.
The girl later came and bailed 

Masala thumbs-up (left)? Brock makes a point that there are too many piles of sand in India (right) 

The Ganges River. 

Queen Victoria Memorial before it started to pour. 

Boeing Dreamliner from Calcutta to Delhi. Anant was in heaven. 

Guru Sri at Sri Sri Holistic in Hyderabad, AP    (AKA: Guru Pitka)

Amigos

Anant likes planes

Poster at KIMS Med College and Hospital outside Hyderabad, AP

Dept. of Fish Building (no joke)

Children

Kittens at SSKM in Kolkata, W.Bengal

More kittens!!!

Old sign (that looks like a tombstone)  from SSKM (where Dr. Acharya was on house staff)

Advertisement at Nightingale Hosp in Kolkata

No words

The Pearl City

Its been a very hectic and eye opening week in Hyderabad. Below are some of the pictures as we went through MULTIPLE private and public hospitals. We met with many key opinion leaders in the field of cardiac health management and electrophysiology in and around Hyderabad. We also met with patients from all walks of life in Urban and Rural areas. The amount of information we captured as a team in astonishing. Though our 12 hour days are completely exhausting, we are thrilled to have the opportunity to talk to so many different types of people and find ways to make the greatest impact possible. 

The pictures below are only a VERY SMALL glimpse of our past week. 

Monday, August 12

Meeting with Medtronic India Pvt. 

Meet with Dr. Ramachandra 

Tuesday, August 13

CARE hospital visit 

Wednesday, August 14

Dean of Osmania University's Blackboard 

Outpatient follow up room

Old hospital beds

                                                                                                      Old school wheelchair design

Kevin with an EP Tech

911 in India is 108

The team outside of Osmania University 

Pigging out at lunch South Indian Style

Diagnostic clinic lab equipment 

                                                                                                           Various tests and prices

Wade volunteering to have an ECG taken 

Packed rickshaw and teenagers walking by 

Cotton mill factory being built 

Herd of goats

Exploring the farmlands 

ECG and radiology manual for rural medical practitioners 

                                                                             

Team photo with Dr. Swami (RMP)

Head of RMPS in the district (left)