The 1000 Day Holiday

in my last week in Mumbai I met a bunch of 1st and 2nd year med students from the UK who were on an aid program to a small town a few hours from mumbai.

It appeared that the local guy running the operation was a drug lord with armed body guards etc!

He was overcharging them for accommodation, and when he was drunk and they asked what the extra money was going towards, he replied expanding his empire!

He would take them to a local hospital, and walk into the operating theatre and ask what was being performed, lean over and have a bit of a look. Then annouce that the students were doctors. They protested, and said students, however he reasserted they were doctors.So the surgeon asked them if they wanted to scrub in.

So 1st year med students ended up doing sterilisation operations.

and vaccinating babies with the unsterilized needles with no knowledge of if any of the babies had HIV. Talk about which is the greater evil!