What kind of hospital volunteer work did you do?

Posted by Melanie Prakash 8 years 2 months ago

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For the high school medical placement in Nepal, we visited four hospitals. Each day we rotated around different hospitals, one day we went to the Bharatpur Eye Hospital, whereby we were allocated to a room e.g Out Patient Department, Minor Operation Theatre, Paediatrics etc... and it was basically up to volunteers to take initiative to ask the junior doctors questions. We also visited the Chitwan Medical College (CMC) the next day and we had an opportunity to each explore a ward each with intern medical students and the nurses. Some of the specialty wards we could choose from were: Tropical diseases, Surgical Wards, Obstetrics, Paediatrics and more. The last two hospitals we visited were the BP koirala memorial cancer hospital and the Bharatpur Family Planning procedures.

Overall we mostly did observational work, but it was incredibly beneficial. It may be different for everyone but I was lucky enough to witness a woman give birth in the obstetric ward at CMC, watch a vasectomy and an insertion of a contraception in the family planning hospital, and watch wound changing in the Minor OT in the Cancer hospital as well as in the surgical ward.

Kindly feel free to email me at: amandaysn@gmail.com, I am happy to answer any of them as I am an ambassador for Projects Abroad.