We left at 6 AM for Rajgarh and stopped for breakfast at a dhaba and had the typical breakfast alho (potato) parantha, curd (something like yogurt), dhal, and tea. We reached the hospital at 10:30 and started setting up the general OT and the eye OT. Now Savita the main girl on the eye side got typhoid so she could not come so I had to be in charge and do everything it was so hectic but thankfully it all got done longer than it should have taken if Savita was there but we got it done, because she packed everything and she is not organized at all so it was hard to find where everything was. I taught Dr. Mandeep how to play phase ten and I beat him good I was so happy, because last camp he taught me a game and he whipped my butt the whole time. Dr. Ali, Sunita, and dennis arrived the next day thankfully and helped me in the eye OPD and OT. There are very few cataract pt at this camp unlike are last camp in shillai where we had to turn people away. We did 17 cataract surgeries and the general side did 65 surgeries they had a lot more pt than us. Finally one night during camp I get this unknown caller on my phone I had no idea who it was but I was pleasantly surprised when it was the guy who has my bag. We talked and decided when I go to delhi to pick up my parents in 15 days I will meet him and we will switch our bags im so excited and relieved. On the 11 of March is the biggest festival in india called Holi. Everyone gets off on this holiday and they throw water ballons and throw this colored powder all over you. A small group from our team traveled to Sangrah our 2nd camp site to do OPD and bring the patients back to rajgarh hospital because sangrah did not have the right facilities to do operations. But because it was Holi very few pt came to the hospital. We only ended up with 3 general surgeries and 0 cataract surgery it was poor planning I believe on our part because festivals are the biggest thing in india and to think that they would come to the hospital even if they were in severe need of surgery they would still celebrate instead that is how they think religion is very big for them. So instead of pt we were covered in colored powder every color blue, green, orange, purple, pink, yellow. They wish you happy holi and than put a tika on your face and rub it all over in your hair it was fun but it got annoying after while. So we traveled back to rajgarh and we kept on getting stopped for people to put color on us they would stand in front of our vehicle and would not move until one of us came out to get color all over us. One group got violent and started banging on our window trying to break it this is when I got a little scared. We completed 17 more cataract sx and 50 more general sx over all it was a very positive camp. Except the nurses and doctors that work at these government hospitals where we do the surgeries are so lazy they will sit in there room and will not come out even when the pt is in pain and needs medicine. So we kept having to go back at night and check on our pts. This poor girl she was 18 yrs old and in labor all day her mother was not there only her sister so she was scared and had no idea what was happening she was laying on the floor when we came in. So we went to check on the nurses and see what they were doing and they had the music really loud while eating and there was an emergency pt sitting out side there room and they were not helping her that is the kind of things that happen I feel so bad, but there is only so much that you can do because its like this at every government hospital.
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