I have just seen something that made my heart sing. Raoul was watering the trees at the side of the guest bungalow. I have kept noticing those trees during my stay here, and thinking, “I must use all of my… Continue reading

It is that time of year again. For the last four visits we have organised the 1st year nursing students onto taking one another’s nose swabs. The original reason for this exercise was to find a nice Staph aureus control… Continue reading

Today is Healing Ministry Sunday across India, organised by the Christian Medical Association of India, in conjunction with local churches and mission hospitals around the country. For KSN Hospital, this means a parade through town by all the nursing students,… Continue reading

This morning I heard the swish……swish of the Marshal Duar girls, sweeping the leaves with their hand held brushes or jharta. They are up at 6am and are soon carrying  out their various chores. “A hard life,” you might say.… Continue reading

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the Blood Bank building had developed since my previous visit, at least on the outside. This morning I was given a tour of the inside and was equally impressed. All the internal… Continue reading

Myself and the other guests were having a guided tour of Marshal Duar Girls Hostel a few days ago, when all of a sudden we were confronted by their new vegetable plot (literally one day old). I was so happy.… Continue reading

My health has been deteriorating since Tuesday. The weekend was very hectic, with little sleep due to noisy neighbours in the places I stayed, so I have probably just over done it. I may well have Covid, but there are… Continue reading

The last three days have been the most useful for the lab staff in terms of specimen processing. On Monday they prepared three different types of culture media, plated out four caesarian section swabs, three diabetic ulcer swabs, and a… Continue reading

Later on Sunday morning we drove to the nearby botanical gardens. They reminded me a lot of the botanical gardens near to where my sisters live in Australia, with Tree ferns, Traveller Palms and Bismark Palms, to name a few.… Continue reading

Ever since a fleeting visit to Santiniketan in 2016, I have been looking for an opportunity to return, and have a more leisurely look around the museum dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore, India’s first Nobel laureate. Rather like the town of… Continue reading