In Bangladesh, 600,000 children under the age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). These toddlers are significantly underweight and are physically stunted from lack of breastfeeding or from diarrhea. If their desperate condition continues, these children may die or become mentally maimed.
I was called up to the out-patient department a few evenings ago to see a little boy who “may” have been bitten by a snake. His parents weren’t sure. He did have a swollen right foot and an itchy area on the top of his foot that looked bruised, but there were no definite fang marks, only a small scratch.
Ruth Yocom came to Bangladesh for the first time in 1975. After two years short term, she returned to the States. She continued to work as a nurse and also pursued formal studies in the Bible at a Christian college. God led her back to Bangladesh in 1985. After studying Bengali for two years, she moved to Malumghat to begin her ministry at the hospital.
Bangladeshis generally don’t smile for their pictures and that’s ok in our Radiology department. Our three skilled radiology technicians stay busy much of the day posing people and taking their x-rays.
A grinning mid-sized boy lay on the table in MCH’s ortho room (grinning, of all things!). An ortho technician raised his electric buzz-saw. Still the boy smiled. I leaned over to his silent mother. “How long has he been in this body cast?”
His mother answered, “3 months. A long 3 months.” No wonder the boy was now smiling.
“So, you want to play soccer again?” I asked, and he shouted, “Yes!” He had to shout. The buzz-saw had begun cutting off his cast.
September 2014, holds the present record for the number of deliveries performed in any given month at Memorial Christian Hospital. During that time two other records were broken as well: the most deliveries in a 24-hour period and then, a week later, the most C-sections done in a 24-hour period.
Bangladeshis are extremely family oriented, and most women here find their most prominent role in being a mother. At Memorial Christian Hospital it is one of our goals to help that happen in the safest and happiest way possible.
This month, on March 8, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Bruce Steffes to Memorial Christian Hospital. Dr. Steffes is the Chief Medical Officer of the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS). PAACS is a strategic response to the need for surgeons in Africa. MCH is PAACS’ only non-African surgical residency. In June, 2014, Dr. Rajib Sharma had joined the PAACS family and began his surgical training at MCH under the mentoring of Dr.
Don’t you love animals, scaly, furry, feathery, wet, dry, big or small? Pondside, I point out the floating frog to young Shumi. I chuckle over the parrot on Anwar’s shoulder. I stop by Ben’s home to see the big monitor lizard they caught, pat a cat’s head, run some veggie peels to the sheep. And I drift off to sleep comparing croaking frogs to orchestral instruments. “CheeeeCheeee.” They’re the piccalos. “Soo. Soo.” Yes, the clarinets.
The more I love you and see you in your greatness, The more, dearest, I see you in true light. The more I lower you, the less I seem to know you, Sometimes losing you, sometimes keeping you in sight. This spring day, with my mind enlightened, I see a vision I’ve never seen before: This world’s vanished; there’s nothing at all Before me only a vast ocean unfolds.
In Bangladesh, 600,000 children under the age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). These toddlers are significantly underweight and are physically stunted from lack of breastfeeding or from diarrhea. If their desperate condition continues, these children may die or become mentally maimed. 
I was called up to the out-patient department a few evenings ago to see a little boy who “may” have been bitten by a snake. His parents weren’t sure. He did have a swollen right foot and an itchy area on the top of his foot that looked bruised, but there were no definite fang marks, only a small scratch.
Ruth Yocom came to Bangladesh for the first time in 1975. After two years short term, she returned to the States. She continued to work as a nurse and also pursued formal studies in the Bible at a Christian college. God led her back to Bangladesh in 1985. After studying Bengali for two years, she moved to Malumghat to begin her ministry at the hospital. 
Bangladeshis generally don’t smile for their pictures and that’s ok in our Radiology department. Our three skilled radiology technicians stay busy much of the day posing people and taking their x-rays.
September 2014, holds the present record for the number of deliveries performed in any given month at Memorial Christian Hospital. During that time two other records were broken as well: the most deliveries in a 24-hour period and then, a week later, the most C-sections done in a 24-hour period.
Bangladeshis are extremely family oriented, and most women here find their most prominent role in being a mother. At Memorial Christian Hospital it is one of our goals to help that happen in the safest and happiest way possible.
This month, on March 8, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Bruce Steffes to Memorial Christian Hospital. Dr. Steffes is the Chief Medical Officer of the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS). PAACS is a strategic response to the need for surgeons in Africa. MCH is PAACS’ only non-African surgical residency. In June, 2014, Dr. Rajib Sharma had joined the PAACS family and began his surgical training at MCH under the mentoring of Dr.
Don’t you love animals, scaly, furry, feathery, wet, dry, big or small? Pondside, I point out the floating frog to young Shumi. I chuckle over the parrot on Anwar’s shoulder. I stop by Ben’s home to see the big monitor lizard they caught, pat a cat’s head, run some veggie peels to the sheep. And I drift off to sleep comparing croaking frogs to orchestral instruments. “CheeeeCheeee.” They’re the piccalos. “Soo. Soo.” Yes, the clarinets.
The more I love you and see you in your greatness, 
