Went to the surgical department at the hospital today,passing a dead man lying on a bed at the entrance to the theatre-the morning patients due to undergo theatre were wheeled past this man and all looked terrified.

First we saw a 27 year old woman having a huge lump (about the size of a grapefruit) removed from her hip. It had been growing there for 3 years and she hadnt done anything about it-to be fair i dont blame her for delaying it after what we saw...no one gets a general anaesthetic here and so the lump was just injected with lidocaine (a local anaesthetic used in the UK for simple stuff like removing small bits of glass and cleaning wounds etc) after injecting the lump the surgeons, who were dressed fittingly like butchers in aprons and wellies, cut into it and the poor woman was trembling with pain and letting out small crys- if the patients scream here they get hit. The theatre staff were laughing and joking with each other and their phones kept going off which they answered, there were also flys landing on the wound but nobody seemed bothered. After about 20 minutes of cutting at the massive lump they finally got it out and encouraged us all to take photos of it- we did. When we asked what the lump was and whether it was a tumor they said no and just called it a 'mass.' Ten minutes after the surgery the woman just got up and walked off.

The next patient was a little girl with 6 toes on one foot which wasnt too bad-they literally chopped it off and put it on the side.

We saw 3 motorcycle accident patients all with severely broken legs and hideous infected wounds. The last of these was a man who had to have his leg amputated. The amputation took place in a really small crowded room which for some reason had a heater in it which made everything 10 times worse-luckinly we convinced them to turn the heater off otherwise we definitely would have fainted. This man was only sedated on ketamine before having his lower leg amputated and during the op he kept waking and sitting up-when he did this they just injected more ketamine into his neck. Everyone apart for me and laura seemed pretty relaxed about the whole situation and once again all had phones which kept going off. I honestly thought I wasnt at all squeamish before today but you would have to have a stomach of steel for it not to turn during this procedure. I dont know how much meat i'll be able to handle at tonights BBQ...