44th
BRINOS Ear Camp -
Fateh-Bal Eye Hospital, Nepalgunj, Nepal
The 44th BRINOS camp ran from 27th March – 5th April
2011 at the Fateh Bal Eye Hospital.
The overseas team included doctors and nurses from the Royal Berkshire
Hospital, Reading, The John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , U.K. and
Dublin in Ireland. The Nepali surgeons came from Kathmandhu. The
Local BRINOS Community Ear Care Assistants, based at the Fateh Bal
Eye hospital, screened the patients and were responsible for the
post op care.
The camp ran very smoothly with 110 “major ear” operations
performed. In addition, on the last day, grommets operations were
performed on children using ketamine anaesthesia, a common, safe,
anaesthetic in developing countries, but very rarely used in the
UK.
Three operating tables were running simultaneously, two for local
anaesthetic cases and one for general anaesthetic cases. The anaesthesia
was made safer by the generous donation of an oxygen concentrator
by Dr and Mrs Kapila, from their charitable fund, the Aman
Kapila Memorial Fund which has been established to commemorate
their son. The concentrator concentrates the oxygen in the room
air to 95% and pipes it to the anaesthetised patient.
We were also delighted to have a continuous power supply thanks
to the kind donation of an uninterruptable power supply
by the Oxford/Bucks BAHA users group. There
are frequent power cuts in Nepal and, although there is a hospital
generator, there is always a variable gap between loss of power
and the generator operator getting the supply back up again.
During this time our operating microscopes and drills stop working,
often at a crucial time.
The uninterruptable power supply basically stores the electricity
and immediately, seamlessly feeds it back in the event of
a power cut. The above new equipment will be available for
all future BRINOS surgical Camps.
The team consisted of:
Visiting Surgeons
Rory Herdman (Team Leader)
Alec Blayney
Ian Bottrill
Nepali Surgeons
Kashi Gywali
Sarita KC
Anaesthetist
Atul Kapila
Nurses
Sue French
Alison Wrigley
Balwinder Kapila ( nursing assistant)
Pashupati Kumari Chaudhary
Rajani Shah
Volunteer
Indra K.C.
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Dr Atul and Mrs Bal Kapila
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