RMS is helping Preeti
The District Commissioner of Jharkhand sent a letter to the director of our Rural Medical Services team giving permission for them to visit all the schools and colleges in the whole district. They are to conduct health camps and educate the children on how...
Amar is back in Simdega
Amar Samad is doing much better. He is talking and living life more normally and is in good spirits. On June 13th a press conference was called where our Dr. Hari Babu shared the story of how our Rural Medical Services team found him in a nearby village....
Who are the Teli Samaj?
The Teli Samaj are a caste of people in India who are known as the "oil pressers" The lower ranked caste has a population of over 18 million people and more than 99% of them are Hindu. 'The Teli community is one of these: "A community which derives its name from the...
Nearly Charged to Death
Two weeks ago an elderly woman went outside and walked around her mud house near 11pm at night. Most of the community was quiet and still at this time of the night, but she needed to get something that was left outside. In India being outside in the...
Update on Amar
If you haven't read the story about Amar last week stop and read that here. Amar's Story Warning: Graphic pictures shown below Update on his first surgery: On May 17th "Team Amar" (the doctors, nurses, and techs who were to operate on...
Amar’s Story
Warning: Graphic pictures posted below On January 12th our Rural Medical Services team visited the small remote village of Bano. This village is located in the Simdega District and has a population just over 5,000 people. Like most remote...
Introducing our Medical Director-Dr. George
We are so excited to introduce Dr. George Matthew! Dr. George specializes in Gastroenterology and worked as the Medical College Principal at CMC Vellore in south India (a 2,700 bed hospital with 1,500 full time doctors) for many year. He is a medical...