Patient stories

Pradima, a 14 years old girl, came with burning wound on the right arm and chest to our OPD, after falling in a curry pot when the students were playing in the hostel. On daily dressing basis, she recovered totally and without scars she could be discharged from our health centre. 

Rohit, a 3 years old child with a hydrocephalus was admitted in our health centre. We could recognize that his motor and sensitive development was intact and his speech and brain function sufficiently for his age. After MRI which showed a hydrocephalus we referred the child to Hope Hospital for the needed ventricular shunt operation. After good recovery he could return home and continued with first writing and further development.

Baneshwar 25 years, fell off a coconut tree, after a girl was asking him to pick up a coconut for her. He broke his body spines and became paralyzed, the clinical treatment was coming too late to avoid the damage of the spinal cord. So he was paralyzed in the leg and also felt weakness in the arms, but still could move the arms. He came with deep ulcera in the skin on the sacral and hip area. One priest brought him to us, with the hearty wish to help him. I tried to find a hospital for his injury in order to get physiotherapy. No positive response. One doctor told there is no chance anymore. This I couldn´t accept in my heart and admitted him in our hospital, even though our facility is primarily for mothers and children. I couldn´t give him up. This is the story of the samaritan in the bible. One man who passed the way took an injured man on his donkey and brought him to a guesthouse and paid for the care of this man. So I have to be open for the needy persons and God´s will. 

When he came he was very depressed, feeling no sense anymore in his life. After giving daily dressing and physiotherapy and emphasizing him through our other patients, he got up and was sitting in a wheel chair, moving outside on some days and started to laugh and being interested about the games and laughs of the other patients. We engaged an art student to prepare earrings and necklaces and bags , so he got active and happy again with his handicapped life.

I also had to think about the healing of the paralytic at Bethesda, which is one of the miraculous healings attributed to Jesus. It is said to have taken place in Jerusalem, close to a fountain or a pool called "Bethesda“. Jesus visited Jerusalem for a Jewish feast. A man who had been paralyzed for a long time was lying next to that pool. Jesus asked the man, if he wants to be fine again. The man explains that he is unable to enter the water, because he has no one to help him in. Jesus tells him to pick up his mat and walk, the man is instantly cured and is able to walk.

Sumitra came with fluid in the heart bag, which compressed her heart in the beating capacity. Our cardiologist removed the fluid in his specialized cardiac hospital and then detected an autoimmune-disease like sklerodermia, which makes the joint stiff and the skin hard and tight with pain and difficult to move. After getting the conservative treatment she recovered and got back her shining Eyes and laughing face.