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Serving the Weak, Lost and Helpless

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SERVING THE WEAK, LOST AND HELPLESS

July 4, 2010
NIEA made a bold move recently.  We laid the foundation stone for a Community Hospital in Bihar that would focus on the needs of underserved women and children.  The 18,000 sq. ft building would serve to combine both preventive and curative aspects of health care to the Eastern region of Bihar, home to over 10 million in four counties.

For years we have contemplated such a move.  The reality of the need on the ground struck home when in the early days of the ministry in Bihar, we lost a young baby of one of our staff members because there was no place to deliver the child and all attendants had left on a religious holiday.  The mother went into obstructive labor and barely survived.  The devastated father was in tears as he recounted to us the agony of running from pillar to post, seeking assistance at the needy hour and finding none.  He was happy to have his wife alive he said. 
 
For the past eight years, we have been serving increasingly the physical needs of hurting communities around us.  Jeanette Wilson ARNP, pioneer NIEA missionary used to do an average of two medical camps a month and see easily over 500 patients.   Disaster responsiveness was an important priority with teams being trained by Drs. Mark and Betsy Neuenschwander around 2002.  Community Health Care work and care of communities came next.  Recently the fourth batch of students graduated after finishing studies in Community Health Care work.  The infamous flood disaster of 2006 and also 2009 saw NIEA ministering to upwards of 50,000 patients and disaster-hit populations on each occasion.

The World Bank 2005 report states that one in 200 in Bihar has Tuberculosis.  Two out of every 200 women dies in child birth.  54% of all children under five are malnourished.  Leprosy and Kala-azar though treatable, are endemic and uncontrollable in several parts.  For the poor and needy - 39% of Bihar’s 90 million live on less than 1 USD per day – gaining basic health care and treatment is a far flung dream and is low on their list of priorities!

Today we work in about 30 villages covering about 25,000 population and attempting to meet their health care needs and providing them with immunization, ante-natal care, basic health education, health advice etc.  We have been gradually building up our base of preventive health services.  Now, we are switching to curative health services and hoping to provide in-patient services to a population size of 10 million plus.  We invite you to please pray with us as we attempt to make a difference in Jesus’ name for those who must see the Light on the hill –to believe in Him.

Thank you for your partnership and for staying in touch!
 
Dr. Alexander Philip,
Director

Submitted By Alex Philip on July 10 , 2010

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