Normally they would have to walk to the hospital sometimes impossible and they die because they cannot afford the taxi fare. It’s a good village and the people are good but their life is very hard. Living in coconut huts for shelter. Had a nice meal the lads cooked today also rice wine and a drink they call ARAK very strong tastes like whiskey with water! (we discover later its made with battery acid)The village is so grateful for what we have done they think we can cure everything. We do have a laugh, Bet’s named Syl ‘Nurse Poultice’ Some of the babies are really sick, they can do nothing and the doctors don’t seem bothered about doing anything, life and death seems part of the norm, the biggest problem is malnutrition.
Fishermen from the village on Elliot beach Madras