A red letter day! I was joined this week by my Scottish colleague Kenny Ferguson from Moray. He has more than 25 years experience as a palliative care nurse, the last 15 in a community Macmillan role. He has also set up a chronic oedema service and we have been planning for him to visit India to assisst in training for some years. Advanced, chronic oedema is a major problem affecting the quality of life for many patients. It is usually related to diseases such as cancer and their treatments but in this part of the world filariasis is also very common. Kenny has worked hard to prepare a training programme focusing on 'training the trainers' If there is a pool of experienced and trained nurses they can continue the sharing of expertise. We spent a few days in Cochin then off to Calicut to repeat the training. Kenny has taken to India like a natural and it has been lovely for me to enjoy his enthusiasm and company. His Scottish banter and moothie have gone down a storm. I think his years in mountain bothies have prepared him well for adapting to India - a qualification I had not considered in our Cairdeas Consultants!! Here is a picture of the Cochin nurses and I will ask Kenny to add his comments for the next blog entry.
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