A long time ago my team and I were going to set up our medical health camp at a place where to reach first about 100 km by department car and then by boat to cross 5-kilometre long river water, and cross river After that, we had to travel 3 kilometres on foot.
There was no vehicle available to travel in that remote village, when we reached the village, we saw, about 60-65 families were living in houses made of mud and thatch of very low height, on seeing us, the children Surrounded by all sides and looked at us curiously.
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We saw that there was neither any mobile network here nor any system of electricity. But we had to cut this for two days and vaccinate these villagers and check their health.
Somehow we had spent that night in the heat, and with mosquito bites, even had to go out into the forest in the morning to urinate, and defecate. Our entire communication system was broken, neither we could contact anyone nor anyone from us.
My laptop battery was also down, I couldn't even do any mail, and mobile phones were already not working. Well, it didn't matter so we 5 team members started enjoying this tough environment here.
This thing is very old, when I was an officer in the Medical Health Department, we were entrusted with the task of taking the health programs run on time by the department to the rural people and increasing public awareness about those programs.
To run these programs, people living in remote rural areas were made aware to be aware of health in the camps. They were told that serious diseases can be treated only by taking care of their health and they can be avoided only with precautions.
The next day, we called the people there in our tent and after examining their health, gave them medicines as per their needs and also told them how to use these medicines, till everything went well.
But after that, we told them that now we will vaccinate women and children resistant to diseases. Hearing this, the people there became very angry and started shouting that we do not want to get vaccinated, I could hardly control them.
But still, they did not agree to get vaccinated. Some people even tried to kill us, and we didn't even have the means to inform anyone about this situation, so I decided that it would be better to leave.
Somehow we came back after saving our lives, and after coming back I informed about entire incidence to my higher officers.
The high officer assured us that if we are sent again to any remote rural areas to conduct such campaigns, then police protection and wireless phones will also be arranged, so that any unlikely incident can be avoided.
