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A Call to Hope

Colossians 1:27 “To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the

glorious riches of this mystery , which is “CHRIST IN YOU , THE HOPE OF GLORY.”

Living a “pahadi life” (life in the hills) taught me to be closely acquainted with the

ways of nature. Trees have always been a part of my life. I have fond memories of

looking trees in various shades across the hills everyday, as I sat in the school cab

looking out of the window. Each season of the year could be made out just by the

colour of the leaves. Spring always brought in a fresh colour of green denoting life

and Hope. As rightly said by Martin Luther, “For in the true nature of things, if we

rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold

and silver.” Green leaves, indeed, denote hope and new life.

As a college student I came across the famous words of Ravi Zacharias almost five or

six years back: “God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in ab-

stract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one

of the three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it

will be tender. Nobody escapes.” Shattered dreams, broken relationships, betrayal of

trust, no value for goodness fills the air that we breathe and yet, we still struggle to

find happiness. Despair is the word that sums it all up and yet, we strive to smile.

Meaninglessness tries to overshadow our beliefs, our work and invariably our exist-

ence. Psalm 34:18 says," The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who

are crushed in spirit."

"There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no rea-

son for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy

to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life

unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is ever-

lasting."-Ravi Zacharias. Yes we are more focused on the “temporary." What we need

is a Paradigm Shift. It is the need of the hour.

THE DUNCAN DYNAMICS N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 8 T H E D U N C A N H O S P I T A L

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

DEVOTIONAL 1

INSTALLATION

OF ETP & STP

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FAMILY FOCUS 3

FINDING THE

LOST

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REPUBLIC DAY

CELEBRATION

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CELEBRATING

GIRL CHILD DAY

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CHAMPAPUR

DENTAL SETUP

INAUGURATION

NEW

RECRUITMENTS

RETIREMENT

NEWLY WEDS

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I want us to pause for a moment right now and count the number of times in a day we catch ourselves

thinking about our heavenly home, our true citizenship. What would it be like it ? Do we eagerly antici-

pate it? I doubt we even think about it on a daily basis. Just a reminder here: Jesus has said, “For where

your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Mathew 6:21) .If we start focusing on what is eternal, we

can gladly proclaim 2 Corinthians 4: 8-10,"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; PER-

PLEXED, BUT NOT IN DESPAIR; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We al-

ways carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our

body." When we focus on our treasures in heaven, despair will start to become a long forgotten word in

our families. As Paul writes: "Christ in you, the hope of glory.” This is the biggest reason for us to rejoice.

Romans 5:5 reminds us: “And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our

hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us .”

If there is any gift the world needs today – it is Hope.

-Noor Teresa Fudong

INSTALLATION OF ETP & STP

The ETP & STP treatment plants were inaugurated by Sis. Poonam Lakra, We thank Mr.Madhu,

Mr.Israel and their team for their efforts in installing the same.

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FAMILY FOCUS

I praise God for providing me with this opportunity to share my testi-

mony with you all.

I am Pramod Minz and I am from Ranchi, a place from the neighboring

state of Jharkhand. I have been in Raxaul for 31 Years. My late child-

hood have been spent here as I came to Raxaul when I was in 6th

Standard. I lived with my relatives who were working at Duncan Hospi-

tal, Raxaul and continued my schooling. I completed my schooling in

1994 from Raxaul.

In 1995 I got an opportunity to get trained as an Eye Technician from

Trichy, which I completed and started working with the Duncan Hospi-

tal’s eye department and since then I have been a part of the Duncan

Hospital working as Eye Technician as well as helping in the Medical

Record Department.

It was in 2003 that the Lord brought Premlata Minz in my life, for which I am truly grateful to Him. We were

married on 14th February 2003 and continued working at Duncan Hospital. I am go glad to have Premlata as

my wife. She has been with me in all the ups and downs I have been through and kept encouraging me to

face all situations with prayers and I praise God for her. She is a real treasure from the Lord.

The Lord has blessed us with 2 beautiful children, Srishti & Prashant; Srishti was born in 2003 and Prashant in

2005. Both of them are studying in 9th and 7th respectively each.

We have seen God’s hand with us throughout our journey with Him at Duncan Hospital, Raxaul. We have

seen a lot of ups and downs & discouraging situations, but the Lord has been walking faithfully with us

throughout this journey with Him and we believe He will be with us in the rest of journey.

Prasie Him always,

Pramod & Premlata Minz

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FINDING THE LOST SP a young man in the mid 20’s was brought to our emergency department after his foot s

crushed by a train. The Railway protection force personnel who had brought him told us

that he used to live on the railway platform. SP was totally incoherent. He kept muttering

to himself and laughing. He was obviously hallucinating and in psychosis. All he could re-

member was his name. Every other thing that he spoke was irrelevant. He was admitted

after the preliminary first aid and was planned for surgery. His foot was completely man-

gled and was beyond salvage so he underwent a below knee amputation and had a good

recovery. He was also seen by our psychiatrist who diagnosed him with a bipolar disorder

and put him on the appropriate medication. Soon his irrelevant talk, the muttering and

giggling ceased and he began to speak relevantly. He began to remember details such as

the names of his family members, the name of his village and what he had been doing all

these years. However we did not know how many years he had been away from his home

but it seemed to be many years. In the ward our nurses cared for him, they bathed him,

cleaned him, fed him and clothed him. The ward staff contributed and bought him clothes

and other necessities. Slowly SP began to walk around and become more social. He had a

very pleasant demeanor when anyone interacted with him. Once we got his details we

tried to share the same with the police and the RPF but they did not seem to do anything

about it. While searching through Google maps we were able to see his village and found out the contact number of

the nearby police station. On speaking with the police inspector of his block we got the phone numbers of his near and

dear ones. One evening a call came from his uncle and with a lot of excitement we came to the ward and SP was able

to speak with his uncle it seemed like finally his family had found him and they would come and take him back home.

The excitement soon turned to dismay when we realised that the family never intended to come back for him. They

kept saying that they do not have money to come and that he was a step child of his father and hence nobody would

come for him. We couldn't believe today a family would not want their member back. SP who never lost hope kept

insisting that he wanted to go back home. We slowly got him to try on a prosthetic limb but due to an ill fitting socket

he developed a small abrasion on his stump. We had to postpone giving him a prosthesis. With the help of the hospital

community staff we decided to take him by ourselves to his village. The community team was planning to go to his vil-

lage and interact with the local leaders, family members and others to sensitize them about mental health. It was sad

that nobody from SPs family wanted to come and get him.

Finally the day came to take him to his village. The community team too him there by road in their vehicle. They spoke

to his family and the local leaders sensitizing them about mental illness and how proper medication could help a lot of

people suffering from severe mental illness.Hopefully Shankar would find his home once again. We need to continue to

pray for him that he takes his medications regularly as that is the only thing that would prevent a recurrence of a psy-

chotic episode.

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70TH REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATION AND FLAG HOISTING

The 70th republic day celebration began at the OPD area with patient’s relatives and Duncan

hospital staff gathering early in the morning to pay their respect and honor to the national flag

and also to the national heroes .

The national flag was hoisted by Sis Dorcus Lepcha, our Nursing School Principal , followed by a

beautiful and very meaningful programs by the students from the School Of Nursing giving the

message about our constitutional rights and women empowerment.

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INAUGURATION OF THE EXTENSION OF THE DENTAL DEPARTMENT AT CHAMPAPUR

RURAL CENTRE

On the 31st of January 2019, the Duncan hospital inaugurated the Rural dental centre at Champapur. The

center will be providing primary dental care and oral health teachings in this center. Dr Saira Paulose inau-

gurated the department and the event was attended by many community people and the entire dental

team from Duncan along with our medical Director Dr Prabhu Joseph and Deputy Medical Director Dr Novin

Chacko.

The community health department has been very instrumental in helping us along the way to start this de-

partment. The services will run from Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. We praise God for this initiative

and hope that many people will be blessed by this effort.

CELEBRATING ‘GIRL CHILD

DAY” IN THE COMMUNITY

The community health department

team celebrated the girl child day to

empower and encourage the girl child in

the community. The program also wit-

nessed the beneficiaries of the tailoring

and beautician courses run at Cham-

papur by the CHDP team. The event wit-

nessed mothers express their joy of hav-

ing a girl child and pledged to educate

their girl children.

The program included songs, games and

other activities from the participants.

Token of appreciation and gifts were

distributed by Dr. Saira, Mr. Chan-

dreshwar and Pastor A Raja.

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NEW RECRUITMENTS

Ms Nikita Kumari (Bsc Nurse)

Mr Sonu Kumar( GNM)

Ms Renuka Kesi ( GNM)

Ms Megha Kumari(GNM)

Ms Priya (GNM)

RETIREMENT

Mr Enam Lugun successfully completed his 25 years in Duncan & retired on 31st of January.

NEWLY WEDS

Dr. Ancy & Tom Mr. Rooplal & Lilamaya