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2013 proved to be an exciting year indeed. The team was very anxious to see the wonderful improvements that our hospital administrator Mr. Jay had worked so hard to get completed. With an additional operating room we were able to bring both an additional surgeon and anestetist. Set with additional capacity we were poised to provide service to many more poor during our two week sprint. What we learned is that with capacity also comes complexity which requires the team to work in an even more coordinated manner to keep the process moving. We also came to realize that no matter how much we try, some times the external factors of working in this poor area of India can cause challenges beyond our control. Despite all of this we had another record setting year and the team should be commended for working so hard and so well together.

In India, government-provided medical programs are insufficient to meet the needs of the enormous population, and too often medical care is available only to those who can pay for it. Friends of Christ India "FOCI" has helped to meet the need for decent medical care for those in need in the Khammam region, through the following: FOCI has helped support the redevelopment of St. Mary’s Hospital, a 100 year old mission hospital serving the poor of Khammam district. We have helped recruit new doctors, train nurses and improve the facilities.

2012 proved to be a record setting year for the Free Surgical Camp with the completion of 900 examinations and over 230 surgeries in 11 days! The Team traveled from here and yon, including Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Utah, Washington and India. The meeting place was the First Transit Hotel just outside the Hyderabad International Airport, Hyderabad, India after a 24 hour trip. We were joined at breakfast by our friends Sagar, Head of the ARMS grade and high school for disadvantaged children, and T.L.Reddy, founder of the Clap Schools, Mobile Schools, Boys Hostel, and Women’s Help Centers. These are Hyderabad projects started and funded by our supporting 501c3 organization Friends Of Christ In India based in Fairfield, Connecticut. In addition we met with Bishop Devamani of the Church Of South India whose diocese owns St. Mary`s Mission Hospital, John Mark, president of the Christian Service Unit which facilitates our work in Khammam and Mr. Jayasheeluda, hospital administrator. After our business meeting our bus was loaded and we departed for Khammam at 10AM, arriving at 4:30PM after 200+km of bad roads and alarming traffic.

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