India report by Rhoda Nussbaum, MD

We had a great and auspicious first day of camp.  We saw 56 women, many returns from the last camp or between camps, did 4 LEEP and 2 cryo and many other biopsies.  Dr. Suma will be certified to do LEEP by tomorrow or the 3rd day and AP Chandrasekar has deported another OBG professor to learn LEEP, Dr. Somia.


Tonight we had a visit with Swamiji arranged by Dr Suma who's in-laws are very close to Swami ji.  We thanked him for his support and described our goals of screening 75% of eligible women by 2020.  He talked about brining training to other parts of Karnataka.

The Vice Chancellor was also at the visit with Swami and we talked a bit about our proposal.  So in the last few days we have met all the important decision makers at JSS expect the principal  land we expect that will happen later this week.

The woman who represents the wives club of Rotary stopped by and two men from Rotary as well.  We will try to get a few of our  California Rotary friends connected with these Mysore clubs and see if we can get buddy support from US and India Rotary for cervical cancer prevention.

So it was a good day.  We are exhausted and satisfied.