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Raja and Rani - ending harmful 'remedies'
| Lalluram works in Sadar Bazar - the largest wholesale market in Asia - transporting people and goods around Delhi using his bay horse, Raja. He relies on Raja to make money to send back to his family of ten in his village in India. |
 | | | Raja recently became lame and in a bid to treat him quickly, Lalluram applied some desi dawai (local medicine) on his knee joints. However, this only made Raja’s knees worse. When Brooke vet, Dr. Mohite, came across Raja he found the horse in a lot of pain with bad blisters and his forelimbs, which were tied together with pieces of dirty jute and nylon thread. He discovered the ointment Lalluram had used was actually a mercury paste that had burned his horse's knee joints. |
| How the Brooke helped
Dr. Mohite and the Brooke team dressed Raja’s wounds and gave him a tetanus injection to prevent him from catching the deadly disease. Dr. Mohite then talked to Lalluram about the painful effect this kind of traditional treatment can have, and gave him some information on how to best care for Raja in the future.
Rani and Misal
Misal is a donkey cart driver who lives with his family of five in Naguman, Pakistan. Misal relies on his donkey, Rani, for his livelihood by transporting goods every day from 7am until 6pm. |
| One day, Rani fell over while transporting a wooden log and she badly injured her back. The wound swelled and so Misal applied the traditional remedy of cooking oil and hot formentation to try and reduce the swelling. However, the swelling ruptured and became a septic wound which then became infected by flies and maggots. In attempt to make Rani better, Misal then used lime powder on the wound to kill the maggots. However, this ‘remedy’ made the wound worse and poor Rani was in a lot of pain. Misal then took Rani to the Brooke in Peshawar. | | |  |
| The Brooke steps in
The Brooke vets washed the wound with saline water, applied an antiseptic dressing and bandage and gave the donkey pain killers and injections to treat the wound and prevent against further infection. They also instructed Misal on to how to care for his donkey in the future and told him that she must not work until fully recovered. |
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