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George Castle Completes Work Experience In India
Trip enabled George to gain insight into the work of doctors in the Indian healthcare system . . .
Year 12 student George Castle has just returned from spending his half-term break acquiring work experience in Rajasthan, northern India, to gain insight into the work of doctors in the Indian healthcare system.
He shadowed the Internal Medicine and Intensive Care teams of the Goyal hospital in Jodhpur, and also observed General Surgery there. The hospital outpatient work included exposure to patients suffering from chest conditions like emphysema and tuberculosis. This experience also enables him to gain an ASDAN Universities Award.
India is impoverished. A third of the world’s poor live in India, more than the 26 poorest African nations combined. Also 42% of India’s children below the age of three are malnourished, almost twice the 28% of sub-Saharan Africa. India is ranked third in the world among the countries with the most number of HIV infected people.
George also spent time at the local orphanage, and attended five local Hindu wedding ceremonies.
Jodhpur is a bustling city of magnificent palaces, colourful temples and ancient forts. George travelled 25 minutes to the hospital each day by three-wheeled auto-rickshaw, witnessing many accidents on their chaotic roads, and also avoiding collisions with the wandering sacred cattle, camels and elephants.
It was an incredible experience, mixing different cultures, cuisine and language.
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