Today we started in the general theatres in the hospital. If I thought the other cardiothoracic vascular theatre was a bit disturbing the general are far far worse. They look like they are from a MASH scene. White drapes, halothane, no ventilators, blood everywhere. In one theatre the only monitoring they had was ECG, the sats probe was broken and the BP cuff wasn't connected. They do possess some advanced equipment, like a laparoscopic stack, but currently it's broken.
Unlike the cardio theatres, there didn't seem to be a disaster associated with each operation. The operation of choice is a cholecystectomy; I've put this down to the Indian diet of eating things doused in ghee,
Indian food is fantastic, wherever you walk there are dhabas; shops that sell all sorts of delicious food, usually deep fried. But it isn't ordinary deep fried western food, because that would be disgusting and unhealthy. This is deep fried indian food, which is delicious and unhealthy. We've been having samosas, paranthas, bread. Just to clarify the middle one isn't strictly deep fried, but it is cooked in a puddle of ghee. When I say bread, I do mean bread, plain ordinary bread dipped in batter.
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