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I signed up with Interserve's fast track scheme for my elective in Spring 2011. I was due to visit the Women's Christian Hospital in Pakistan however days before departure received a final "No" to myVISA application. Therein lay the advantage of an elective with an organisation - Interserv immediately set...
The prospect of spending all ten weeks of my medical elective in a Christian hospital in rural Bangladesh was both an exciting and a daunting one. I knew that there was only a limited extent to which I would be able to prepare myself beforehand for all the shocks and...
The 7 weeks of my medical elective were spent in a Christian hospital called 'LAMB Hospital' in Parbatipur, North-West Bangladesh. It is a 150 bed hospital which is well known in the local area (and further afield also) for its good quality care and its particularly good obstetrics, gynaecology and...
