Medical
requirements
A message from the
expedition’s Honorary Medical Officer:
“A training
camp in circuitous and mountainous narrow gauge railways
has been established in the foothills of the Snowdonia
mountains.
This has been supplied with all the necessary items for
acclimatization to the Indian narrow gauge, ie spicy Indian
tea bags (aka Chai), sickbags, curry powder, Imodium
capsules etc.
Details of the programme will follow - sicknotes will not
be accepted, but the team induction will continue with
visits to the Kasturi* and cultural exchanges with East
Lancashire.”
On behalf of the team’s medical committee
Dr Jim Ford MSc MFOM DDAM DRCOG certMHS FAMS MBE (by
marriage)
Consultant Occupational Physician
For those not practised in the reading of
prescriptions, this can be rewritten as:
“A training camp in
circuitous and mountainous narrow gauge railways has been
established in the foothills of the Snowdonia mountains.
This has been supplied with all the necessary items for
acclimatisation to the Indian narrow gauge, ie spicy Indian
tea bags (aka Chai), sickbags, curry powder, Imodium
capsules etc.
Details of the programme will follow - sicknotes will not
be accepted, but the team induction will continue with
visits to the Kasturi* and cultural exchanges with East
Lancashire.”
On behalf of the team’s medical committee
Dr Jim Ford MSc MFOM DDAM DRCOG certMHS FAMS MBE (by
marriage)
Consultant Occupational Physician
Message ends.
* An eating house of the curry persuasion in the Southport
locality.
