practical care

Health care for the tribal villages can be substandard and difficult to access. Often when we visit the villages, people come to us asking for medical assistance.

In response to this need, Fountain of Life Ministries co-operated in a medical mission, involving five GPs from the UK, seeing patients often under canvas in rural villages, seeing 300-500 patients a day. Working with a wider, Indian support team, we were able to offer medical advice, provide referrals, dispense medication and glasses.

Whilst Sarah saw patients, Sundar was involved with other aspects such as registration and triage, running the dispensary and ophthalmic – fitting people for glasses! It was a great experience and we are keen to run similar initiatives in our area in the future.

RESPONDING TO NEED

This is an area we would love to move into in the future, providing holistic compassionate care for a people group who often feel neglected. There are great health inequalities and we’d love to do our part to start t address this

This medical care is a great way of communicating God’s love in a tangible way.

We are also often in a position to respond to individual needs. There are a number of children in the home with particular needs that we are hoping to help with, including physical and learning disabilities.