Medical Internship in New Delhi

We arrived into London early morning Friday after driving around Terminal 5 four times. We were relieved to find a Travelodge in the vicinity, but shortly after we were dismayed as it was the wrong one. We grabbed some quick brief directions, and before we knew it we were finally in bed, and we all slept like logs. Another early start was on the cards, because my VISA and passport needed collecting from Finchley Rd, Central London.

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My first sense of India was the sheer blanket of heat that washed over me as I left the airport. I checked my watch against my driver’s just to see if I was correct. It was 7am and it was boiling. I couldn't possibly imagine the mid day heat, if this was how hot it was in the morning. The driver was very interested and intrigued with the UK and what I found fundamentally different between the two.

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The Monday was our first day at the hospital; we were driven there by Sowmya. She showed us to Neeloofer, who is in human resources. We were then sent to the emergency department where we started our placement. Within the first 30 seconds a patient came in who had suffered from a heart attack, she was in a very bad state. She was our first patient so I felt connected to her, within 10 minutes she was dead :( :( :( I was a bit upset.

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Jaipur, "the Pink City" was the first place I visited outside of Delhi. I went with Holly, John and Michelle. We took our first step out of the train station to be promptly surrounded by a group of 10 to 15 auto drivers all shouting for us to take their auto; "good price sir, good price", "student price". After wading our way through the group of eager Indians we made our way to the outside of the train station where we found less ridiculously priced rickshaws, we landed ourselves one guy for the whole day for a mere 350 Rs.

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Agra was an emotional roller coaster, a lot happened in such a short amount of time. We awoke on the Saturday at a ridiculously early time, 5am. We made our way around the general area within our taxi and picked up the Agra crew consisting of; me, John, Michelle, Rob and Lisa. Our ride there was going smooth most of the way, but then we were hit by torrential monsoon rains, which pooled around the vital roads it seemed we needed to take to get to the Taj Mahal.

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Our first day at the hospital was a fairly dramatic start. After sorting out a few trainee badges for us, Neelofer Abbasi, our main organizer at the hospital, took us up to ER and literally 30 seconds after arriving there a woman was rushed in having a heart attack. It was immediately obvious who the head of the department was as we saw Dr Navneet walk swiftly over to the woman take a quick look at her and then start barking commands to all the staff around him.

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Hello everyone, sorry it has taken me so long to get this done but things seem to be happening faster than I can find time to write about At this point I am just three weeks in and will attempt to relay most of the things that have happened so far. I arrived in Delhi slightly later than expected due to our airplane getting a punctured tire on Heathrow runway. We were stuck on the ground for two hours at which point I could tell that some of the passengers were very willing to go out and to change the tire themselves.

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Varanasi was easily the best weekend away in India, we just did so much, I will elaborate below. The land of Varanasi (Kashi) has been the ultimate pilgrimage spot for Hindus for ages. Often referred to as Benares, Varanasi is the oldest living city in the world. We took the overnight train from Delhi to Varanasi, the train took a grand total of 14 hours.

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This week Hannah and I visited Red Fort, the ruins of the last Mughal emperor’s palace. From the outside, all you can see is giant walls of rusty red stone, but inside, the courtyard was filled with building made of white stone and elaborately detailed with carving of fruits and flowers. Some of the carvings even used colored stones placed into the walls as the petals and leaves of different plants. In between the buildings were wide lawns punctuated by trees and what clearly were once pools and water features, though now no water fills them.

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I spent my first couple days in the hospital just watching surgeries because I didn't know what department I wanted to see first, plus that seemed most exciting! My first surgery was a lobectomy sleeve resection, performed in a 63 year old man who had a tumor obstructing his intermediate bronchi. So to get rid of the tumour completely, they removed the upper lobe of his left lung, hence the lobectomy.

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