CCC

The Internet at seva mandir doesn't work that well, so I haven't been able to post until now. My apologies to the 3 people who read this ;)

Yesterday I went to the Comunity Care Clinic (CCC) for HIV/AIDS patients. The clinic has 10 beds and sees both inpatients and outpatients: generally inpatient at first diagnosis and then outpatient for acute complaints. Usually, the patients present to their local village doctor with a presenting symptom and then are sent to the ART (anti-retroviral treatment) facility. From there, they are started on meds and sent to the CCC for a 5 day stay of monitoring drug reactions and extensive counseling. When I was there, they had 2 patients, a 14-year old infected at birth, being treated for oral thrush, and the other newly diagnosed without complaints.


After the 15 minutes it took to "round" on these patients, I spent the rest of the afternoon fielding questions from five 20-something Indian guys, including "are you married? when will you get married? Do your parents arrange your marriage? How money do you make? Can I see your iphone? Can I look at the pictures on your iphone? How much does an iphone cost? Can we be Facebook friends? Can I have your email address? Can I have your phone number? Will you come visit us if you ever come back to Udaipur?". I now have a dead iPhone battery and 4 new facebook friends, one of which opened a Facebook account right at that moment, just so we could be friends. Indian men are a strange breed.

For some reason my iPad won't let me post pictures to this blog, so I'll just post them on my Facebook page.