Second Day

Today we got a tour of the Mercy Hospital that we will be working at. It is so amazing to know that the hospital is completely funded many donators. It is a 8 floor hospital and it offers free care to all patients. Little kids with cleft palate or lip can come receive surgery for free which is a 10 year process. They also have a blind school and offer eye surgeries for free such as cataract surgery. The goals for the hospital is to have up to 40 medical clinics in the upcoming years. There is a very small physical therapy clinic too. We are all very excited for our first day of work tomorrow and ready to begin doing patient care. We will all be split into groups of two and will have chances of working on the different floors doing patients care, shadowing surgeries in the operating rooms, feeding patients, working in the cardiac care unit, etc. This hospital and the founders are doing amazing things and they are completely relient on God providing the funds to keep it running so that the people of Kolkata can receive free treatment. The rest afternoon we will be heading our way into the local markets and then dinner at the baptist mission tonight where we are staying. We are sitting in the Hope House right now across from the hospital and we got to meet two litle girls that had holes in their heart at birth and had them fixed. They are beautiful shy little girls that have been drawing us pictures. We hope everyone is doing well at home. Love you all -Natalie and Team