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	6th May 2006
	Miracles in Kashmir
	25th Dec 2005
	A Different Perspective of Life in Kashmir
	Report by Alwin Tien
	6th Dec 2005
	29th Nov 2005
	Updates from Bagh Team 3
	17th Nov 2005
	The Quake Didn’t Kill Him-- But Winter Might
	14th Nov 2005
	9th Nov 2005
	Recce Team Report from Pakistan
	Plight of the South Asia Quake Victims

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Miracles in Kashmir – 6th February 2006

By Jolyn Chua, Pakistan Team 9

Team 9 – Dr. Benjamin Leong, Jolyn Chua (10-17 Jan 2006)

The first day we arrived in Kashmir on 11 Jan 2006, while halfway on the 5-hour van journey to Mang Bajeri in Kashmir, we met with a road accident on a hilly road near Arja. A small truck had turned out suddenly and hit us as we were going downhill. Our van driver braked and the van swerved to the side, but thankfully, we stopped in time and did not swerve over the cliff. The van was slight dented on the left hand front corner, but we were safe and unhurt.

We were very fortunate, especially in terms of the weather! By some divine intervention, our local host had already planned our schedule for us to trek up the mountains to do mobile clinics only on Thursday and Saturday, and the weather was bright and sunny on both of those days! On the other days where we planned to stay in camp and do clinic at camp, the weather was less favourable. It was cloudy and cold on Fri, and it rained the entire day on Sunday, which meant the sandy and steep hill tracks would be wet, muddy and very slippery, not ideal for trekking at all.

In most parts of Kashmir and Pakistan, winter was actually delayed for about three weeks, which allowed more time for the much-needed supplies to reach the people. About two weeks before our trip, there was snow at the Mang Bajeri base camp on three days. Thankfully, the week that we were there, there was no snow at all, so it was not overly cold for us and the Kashmiris. However, we did see have the opportunity to see snow as we were passing through Murree, a mountainous area with many tall peaks.

The van was slight dented on the left hand front corner

Cloudy and cold weather

Us and the Kashmiris

Rosana, the 27-year-old lady with epilepsy

We also had the chance to visit Rosana, the 27-year-old lady with epilepsy. She was bedridden for one year, very weak and regularly had three epileptic fits a day. After the first team that visited her in December 2005 left her, miraculously, in the next three days that followed, she did not have a single fits attack at all! And since then, she has been put on epilepsy medication specially bought for her and different teams have gone up to help her do physiotherapy and her condition has continued to improve greatly! Now, not only was she smiling when visited her, she was seated upright in her bed, and even able to stand up and walk around the house! So far, she only has one mild attack every two weeks or so. A true miracle! What a drastic difference it has made to her life!

Overall, we had a very good trip. We saw and treated over 200 patients from numerous villages.