Dr. Verghese travels every year to remote locations in Northeast India, the border of China and India, Myanmar, the slums of Kolkata, Bangladesh, Mumbai and other regions where people suffer from starvation, malnutrition, homelessness and numerous diseases. These maladies include mosquito-borne illnesses such as Zika, Dengue, Malaria, West Nile Virus, Chikungunya, Filariasis and a long list of others.
While in India, Dr. Verghese and his team ministered physically through humanitarian service, distribution of Integrative Coronavirus Defense(ICD) and spiritually through spreading the Word of God, to refugees who had lost hope of survival and never been to a doctor.
As you can see in these pictures, they make their roofs out of blue waterproof tarps and bamboo and palm leaves. Their toilets are 1-foot holes in the ground and with frequent rain, they overflow to every area the refugees live. More about Medical Camp.
- Orphaned children and their caretakers received CD, clothes, slippers, and other support.
- Four men carried this woman on a chair to where Dr. V. was conducting medical camp. Unidentified Pathology – Possible Mosquito-Borne Viruses. Notice an infectious area on her right ankle, right fibular collateral and early stage infection on her right wrist.
- Not Necrotizing Fasciitis - Her left foot was infected about 12 years with the progressive infection and fell off.
- Autoimmune disease, bacterial, fungal, viral, possibly mosquito-borne infections as a result of biological transmission when the infected insect passes on the pathogens when it bites. This woman had been suffering for about 9 years, couldn’t check lymph nodes, no fever, early stages of vitiligo, left leg painful to the touch, feeling of severe skin drying, thick scaly, crust (about ¼ inch, 6.3mm), cracked, raised like dry earth skin patches on top, silver shiny skin, and itchy.
- This woman's hygienic needs were provided. She was taken to a hospital where they performed surgery. Dr. V. made arrangements for a post-surgical orthotic for her.
- His infections appear to have been caused by mosquito viruses, both malaria-infected and ZIKA virus-infected. If we had not treated him, he would have died like many others in the refugee camp. He was given CD and made dramatic improvement.
- This child became progressively blind in both eyes due to viral conjunctivitis and mosquito pathogens. He is still blind but healthy. His parents said he had a stiff neck, pain, headaches, high fever, swollen lymph nodes and loss of vision in the left eye. His nose was bleeding. The signs and symptoms pointed to malarial, West Nile, ZIKA and Dengue mosquito viruses.
- This boy became progressively blind in both eyes due to viral conjunctivitis, bacterial, fungal, parasitical infections, and possible mosquito-borne pathogens. He is still blind but healthier. His parents gave him CD tea.
- A girl about 12 years old has viral conjunctivitis, oral thrush yeast infection, and appears to have multiple mosquito-borne pathogens.
- This teenage girl is blind in both eyes due to viral conjunctivitis, bacterial, fungal, parasitical infections, and possible mosquito-borne pathogens. Her parents gave her CD tea and multivitamins.
- A young girl is blind in her left eye and slowly becoming blind in the right eye due to have viral conjunctivitis, oral thrush yeast infection, and possible multiple mosquito-borne pathogens.
- This girl progressively became blind in both eyes due to viral conjunctivitis, bacterial, fungal, parasitical infections, and possible mosquito-borne pathogens. Her parents gave her CD tea and multivitamins.