I belong to 2007 MBBS batch of Father Miller Medical college Mangalore. It was during our five and a half years of medical schooling Doctors Ministry of Jesus Young India( a missionary movement) bloomed in different medical college campuses including mine, challenging and inspiring medicos to rediscover medicine as a Vocation rather than a mere profession.It was under their guidance and after a training that lasted for more than a month that two of my colleagues and I decided to go as mission doctors to rural areas.Thus I was posted in Holy Trinity Hospital Adilabad District of Telangana.
During our rural postings to PHC in Mangalore , practice seemed much easier being at the vicinity of a number of hospital with better facilities.This however wasn't the situation in village where I was posted.Like any rural area more than the distance to a better hospital , it was the financial struggles and lack facilities there continue to be the hurdles. To add on to the agony are a number of local practitioners including voodoo practices in interior village areas hinder the chances of primary medical intervention.
Having spent almost seven months in this area practicing at the hospitals, house visits, & organising medical camps, among people where the complexities of modern life hasn't taken over , where doctors are considered to be equal to God it was a real learning experience.At the same time ,being known to then as a Christian doctor, was challenging as to live like one .It did teach me to value life more, and that every patients requires listening to them as the prime treatment. When the poor facilities limited the treatment protocols to the text books leaving treatment possible only with limited intervention and prayer being one of them, we could see the Creators hand working miracles.
Among million lessons learned that which i hold close to heart is though medicines are treatment, Medical care professionals are healing hands through whom Healing comes from Above.
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