MY "MESSAGE FROM MANALI"
SENT OUT OF LADY WILLINGDON HOSPITAL
AFTER A DAY WITH ADMINISTRATOR SAMSON
AND SUPERINTENDENT DR. LAJI VARGHESE
Sep. 27, 2001
I am alive and well at Manali, and now am in Lady Willingdon Hospital where I am visiting and helping my colleague Dr. Laji Varghese.
We have completed the medical mission and are returned through the high mountain passes and have come back to Manali, enroute tomorrow to Dharamsala and then on to Delhi.
Because of the disruptions in air traffic and the cancelation of a number of the team, the mission to Nepal is postponed to May of 2002, so I am trying to arrange an earlier return to Washington on Oct. 1, then continuing as planned on to the ACS in New Orleans on Oct. 7.
This team has had no medical students so we have had a faster turnover in the patients seen so we have completed 1500 patients in a shorter time with an unusual smaller team of our residual members after many cancelled out from this .
I attach an incomplete outline of the evetns so far, and will fill in when I can get to reliable technology--which in my case is still to be discovered!
It has been a very unusual trek with the proximity of world events constantly in awareness, and some atypical team members--all of which will be described in the letters coming as serial letters and postcards.
So, I will try again to travel in this unstable world, and return toward a more normal pattern of activity.
Cheers!
GWG