One Geek

Well yesterday I found out that the hospital I was working on last year has been inaugurated on Monday. My trip to India was rescheduled so that I would of been able to attend the inauguration if my trip were not cancelled. Still waiting for some official communications from the hospital team about what’s going on. I hate waiting on emails.

From what I can tell the hospital isn’t really open. I don’t think it is seeing patients yet or anything.

I have found out through unofficial channels that the IT team that I was going to head are visiting the hospital in a week or two to help Tushar the guy I trained get the IT systems ready.

I am left confused as to what has happened. Hopefully I will get a good response from the director of the hospital, that will make it all make sense.

What I do know was if I had been consulted about things I might of been able to work out someway I could assisted them. Plus I could of had a fun party for the hospital opening. I like parties.

Well looks like I’m not going to be going to Nagaland now for a few more weeks. The board has set the date for the opening of CIHSR to after I was due to leave, and so now I am looking at moving my flights around a bit. On the plus side this makes me more hopeful that I will get to see the opening.

Sunday often brings me a sense of peace. The place where I am staying in Dimapur is certainly more peaceful then my home in Delhi. As I was making myself breakfast this morning I could hear the singing of Western Contemporary Praise and Worship songs.

I went to the morning service at the Ao church 50 meters down the road. Ao is a major tribe of Nagaland. The service was all in Ao, and they sung Ao version of Great Is Thy Faithfulness. It was a nice experience, they had lots of prayer, a few songs and a rather long sermon. The preacher was kind and took pity on me and the two other foreigners in the service, and gave brief summaries of what he was saying in English every so often. I had the problem of feeling rather dehydrated and sleepy during the service. I almost fell asleep a number of times during the service.

At the end of the service even during the closing prayer people started leaving. Few of them stayed around for even a few minutes. It seemed to be a very much worship and then go home affair.

Not sure what I am doing today I’ll have to wait and see.

So I am in Dimapur now haven’t worked out how to get on the net yet. That will come soon.

It’s great to finally be here. The plane trip was quite scenic I like prop driven planes except it made me feel a little sick. The area is quite tropical with a humidity to match. It was fantastic to finally see the hospital site. Lots of activity going on with 100’s of people working. Roads are being built/widened, foundations are being made for staff housing, trenches are being dug for the sewerage, walls are being knocked down, walls are being built, so many other things too.

It’s good to meet a few more of the people working on the project as well. That’s about all I have to say for now.

I am connected using the dial up account they have here at CIHSR.

Well tomorrow morning at 5.15am I am off to Nagaland. My first flight is to Kolkota and then from there onto Dimapur. I am looking forward to seeing the progress on the project, meeting more of the people who are involved in it, and seeing the people who will hopefully benefit from it. In addition I should get a better idea as to when I’ll be moving there, timelines and some of the requirements.

My stomach is behaving a lot better since the I started taking drugs, hopefully it will cope with Naga food. Hopefully I won’t end up eating any dog. We shall see.

I have to warn you all that my blog fequency may drop until Thursday night when I should get back to Delhi. I really don’t know when I’ll be able to blog in Nagaland. On the plus side I should have some new exciting pictures to put up when I return.

Just had a good project meeting. I am feeling all inspired. The idea of reviving a project that for over 15 years failed to be completed. The mission of getting this hospital up and running by the 1st of October is something the team is very motivated to do. It’s crucial to do it to gain the trust of the people and begin to serve the people.

Quality affordable health care is so important. It’s nice working on a project that has serving the poor as it’s focus. The patient who gets a free charitable treatment will get the same medical treatment as a private patient.