{"id":4704,"date":"2020-11-06T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2020-11-06T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:30:18","slug":"a-worthy-career-reopen-a-closed-hospital-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2020\/11\/06\/a-worthy-career-reopen-a-closed-hospital-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Worthy Ambition: Reopen a Closed Hospital in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/ann-e1604625647420.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4706\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/ann-e1604625647420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a worthy career goal? Need an inspiring role model? Consider Ann Miriam, INMED learner and physician with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eha-health.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emmanuel Hospital Association<\/a> in NE India. Writes Dr. Miriam, &#8220;My husband (Vijay Anand Ismavel, a paediatric surgeon) and I (an anesthesiologist) have been working at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.makunda.in\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Makunda Christian Leprosy and General Hospital<\/a> in northeast India since 1993. We restarted this closed down hospital at that time.&#8221; The hospital had become inoperative 10 years ten earlier when the American and Western European staff longer had their visas renewed to remain in India.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Drs. Miriam and Ismavel are highly qualified, and could have easily remained working in their original city physician, but &#8220;They wanted to take their medical skills to the people who needed them the most \u2014 the farther away and the larger the number the better,&#8221; observes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilsocietyonline.com\/cover-story\/doctors-out-there\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Civil Society<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 &#8220;When they turned up at the Makunda Hospital they found it was just the kind of challenge they were looking for. It was in a decrepit state, located on grounds over hundreds of acres and it had a vast catchment of under-served poor rural people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, Makunda Christian Leprosy and General Hospital each year serves 100,000 outpatients, 17,000 hospital admissions, oversees 6,000 deliveries, and performs some 3,000 surgical procedures. A research project by the Wharton School of Business was done on the impact of Makunda Christian Leprosy and General Hospital, who published these inspiring result: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/342551561_The_Makunda_Model_An_observational_study_of_high_quality_accessible_healthcare_in_low-resource_settings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Makunda Model: An observational study of high quality, accessible healthcare in low-resource settings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Says Dr. Miriam,\u00a0 &#8220;The success of the work at Makunda is all due to God&#8217;s grace and the hard work of numerous highly committed staff.&#8221; Enjoy this nicely produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V5B1nMyyN-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full interview with Dr. Miriam and her husband Dr. Ismavel<\/a> on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Looking for a worthy career goal? Need an inspiring role model? Consider Ann Miriam, INMED learner and physician with Emmanuel Hospital Association in NE India. Writes Dr. Miriam, &#8220;My husband (Vijay Anand Ismavel, a paediatric surgeon) and I (an anesthesiologist) have been working at the Makunda Christian Leprosy and General Hospital in northeast India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inmed-grads-in-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}