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Velemegna case Histories

1970 A woman came to Velemegna explaining of a huge abdomen due to a two-year pregnancy, which was really a 10 lb. tumor. After surgery and receiving three pints of blood, she went home healed.
A man with a popleteal fossa/tumor aneurysm (usually resulting in amputation) was operated on and went home walking.
A villager whose arm had been caught in a sugar cane crusher and who had used his other hand to pull it out, needed both arms amputated to save his life. When a manager of the sugar factory accidentally touched his knife against a piece of machinery during the churning process, the machine threw fragments of the knife out, puncturing three workers who received emergency operations and fully recovered.

1971 During a cholera epidemic, a nurse was instructed to give all staff members’ cholera vaccine. By accident, Sushila's injection was administered from a syringe contaminated with penicillin, causing her to faint. In a panic, the nurse gave an anti-allergic injection, which did not take effect. With Christy away, the two small Salins daughters knelt in prayer, and something told Christy to return home. He was able to get emergency drugs into his wife. Although Sushila recovered, she suffered psychic trauma and remained fearful of injections for many years.

1978 A woman with a history of intestinal obstruction came to the hospital eight months pregnant. An examination disclosed that the baby was not in her uterus but had formed in a sack attached to her abdomen (an Etopic pregnancy), the walls of which were so thin that the baby's limbs could be held. Mother and child went home well, but four months later the child died to gastro-enteritis.

1979 A five-year old child came to the hospital so severely deformed from tuberculosis she could only crawl on four limbs. Treatment was begun and soon she was able to stand on both legs. Within five years, she could walk straight. At age 19 she began a promising career as a skilled nursing aid in a rural hospital.

1981 Two orphaned brothers were brought by a preacher to the hospital suffering from full-blown lepromatous leprosy. Food and lodging were provided and medical care started immediately. Four to five years later, the brothers were cured and gained employment as a driver and construction worker.

1985 A rich landlord developed leprosy and blindness due to cataracts. At Velemegna he was treated for trophic ulcers on his feet and operated on for cataracts. He left the hospital as a happy man with his sight fully restored and sufficiently healed of leprosy to again manage his farm.

1988 One of Velemegna's staff members was also manager of the World Vision Project. While Christy was away, the manager's wife arrived in labor. Delivery became complicated and with only a paramedic to assist her, Sushila needed forceps to deliver the 10 lb. infant, and stitched the wound. Several hours later, the women went into shock and fainted. Unable to resuscitate her or find a vein to administer an intravenous drip, Sushila called on the Lord for help as she watched her blood pressure drop dangerously low. An injection was administered in an attempt to raise her pressure, and in time Sushila asked the male nurse to look after the woman for a few hours so she could get some rest. At midnight, Sushila suddenly awoke and asked what had happened to the woman. "Don't worry," a voice calmly responded. "Sleep." Sensing it was the voice of the Lord, she went back to sleep and at 5:30 a.m., fully rested, she was awakened by the familiar Muslim call to prayer from the nearby minaret. The nurse was smiling; the patient was fine.

1989 After being raped, Kantha came to the hospital for an abortion, which was refused. The girl was cared for and a healthy baby was delivered and given to the orphanage. The pretty, young girl was then kidnaped by a leprosy beggar who attempted to sell her to a brothel. She was later saved by a Christian paramedic who married her, and her story ended happily.

1990 A pregnant girl appeared at the hospital at 3 a.m. urgently requiring a Caesarean section to save her baby. Since the power was customarily cut off each day at 5 a.m., preparations were hurriedly made and the baby delivered. After stitching the inside uterine layer, the lights suddenly went out. With no petrol to start the generator, the only light available was a flashlight (torch). Unable to find the needle she had been using, Sushila assumed it had fallen on the floor and reached for a second to continue. Christy, who was administering anaesthesia, had another concern. What if it had fallen inside the woman's abdomen? There was no way to be certain until the power was restored. "Please God," Sushila silently prayed as she completed the stitching, "don't let the needle be inside her." When the lights came on, there was the needle on the floor by her feet.

1991 At ten years of age, Shanthu was attacked by viral encephalitis, leaving him sightless and with such deformed legs; he could only crawl around on all four limbs. Desperately seeking help, he came to a faith healer in Bidar only to be disappointed when neither his blindness nor deformities were cured. When someone led him to Velemegna, Christy performed cataract surgery, which successfully restored his sight. Overwhelmed by God's kindness and the doctor's skills, he dedicated his life to God's service and joyfully went from place-to-place on a friend's cycle singing God's praises.

2002 A 17-year old lambadi tribal girl was brought to Velemegna by one of the VICT students. She had been blind for six months and abandoned, with a little baby, by her husband. Diagnosed with congenital cataracts on both eyes, she was operated on and implanted with IOL (intra-ocular lenses). Overjoyed to see her child, and everything else, she could not stop laughing and rejoicing. She then accepted Jesus as her personal savior.

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