Monday, March 8, 2010

Happy Women's Day!

It's International Women's Day today, which India is celebrating in full-force. This means getting text messages like:

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. A woman must do what he can't. Wishing you a Happy Woman's Day.

Everyone is greeting me Happy Women's Day, from our office boy to all the COO candidates I'm speaking to by phone.

Here at the hospital, we're holding Women's Day health camps at four of our locations, which includes our doctors speaking about women's health and health check-ups. One of our hospitals has also partnered with a local non-profit called Healing Fields (started by an Ashoka Fellow) to do a health camp focused on adolescent girls - in conjunction with a grant we recently received from Nike Foundation.

And a happy just-in-time Women's Day update: twins were just delivered literally five minutes ago and just down a few flights of stairs from my office... the family lovingly crowds around to welcome them into the world (always an amazing treat to see on my way down to lunch).

Women's Day... maybe something we should start celebrating in the US?! ;)

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