Anna and I were able to spend a day with two couples Drs Varghese Philip and Nirmala and Manoj Jacob and Manju, who started a hospital in Orissa about thirty years ago. The other couple who were along with them were Drs Joseph Thomas and Grace. All the three couples left to pursue their other vocations when other doctors came to continue the work, which is a now a hospital with a variety of community activities such as day care centres for children, running a school, offering agricultural training for farmers, running village clinics in tribal areas..etc. It is a hospital now well known for its secondary care services in different specialties.
The occasion was the engagement of Dr Manoj and Mnju's daughter, Mona, whose brother is in the centre of the back row of this picture.
What a privilege it was to meet with them and feel the warmth and regards they had towards us. I remember having been in the board of their trust for a few years in the initial stage of their time at Lamptaput.
They moved away form a regular stream of medical work when they were young to give their service to a tribal community!
They are an outstanding example of being faithful to a calling to serve!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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