The tour was scheduled from 21st Oct to 2nd Nov, 2011.Two groups reached Dhaka at 21st Oct. In first group Prof Matsumoto accompanied with Prof Kobayashi, Dr. Emi Ogasawara and Mr. Ishii (from Dhaka) came here to survey SK hospital and field works outline. They were scheduled to go back to Japan at 27th Oct. Another group consists of Dr. Sanjoba, Dr. Yusuf, Dr. Niikura, Mr. Osada, Ms. Jiamei, Mr. Mehmet and me, Sohana. Mr. Abdus Salam, Health Inspector of Trishal Upazilla health complex accompanied us for providing us the information and the status of Kala-azar of that area and also informed us about the patient.

Both groups started their journey at 22nd Oct, 2011 at 8.00 am from Bengal Inn of Gulshan-1, Dhaka. After we reached Mymensingh we directly went to Trishal health complex to meet Mr. Salam and pick him up and started our work. Three villages of Mymensingh Alohori of Harirampur union, Magurjura of Mathbari union and Kakchar & Barma of Kanihari union was decided earlier for study. The work procedures were mainly setup light traps, animal bed trap and sticky paper trap to collect the sand fly and preserve them in alcohol. Another purpose was to set up the design & study the live sand fly for further field research tour for next time.
We set up the light trap (automatic & manual) and the animal bed trap at the evening before sunset around 4.30 to 5.00 pm. As sand flies are most active around sunrise and sunset, the light traps were left there overnight and were collected them after sunrise; approximately between 8.00 to 9.00 am. For our table work we used Trishal field office of icddr,b at Porabari Road. In field office the trapped sand flies were mainly separated from many other different kinds of insects specially mosquitoes and ten they were preserved in alcohol.

At 22nd Oct Dr. Alim, a researcher of Mymensingh Agricultural University met us in dinner. At 23rd Oct and 31st Oct meeting was held with Dr. Toha, senior medical officer of Kala-azar project, icddr,b. At 23rd Ms. Mori, Ms. Inaoka, Ms. Nakano of JOCV joined us and observed our field work at 24th Oct.

There is a brief outline of our tour below:

Date	Activity
22nd Oct	set up light trap at Alohori para of Alohori village
23rd Oct	collect light trap from Alohori Set up light trap at Moddhopara of Magurjura village
24th Oct	collect light trap from Magurjura Separation and preservation of samples was in field office
25th Oct	set up animal bed trap with cow at Magurjura Collect live sand fly
26th Oct	departure of first group from Mymensingh Collect animal bed trap and preservation of samples at field office Set up light trap at Magurjura
27th Oct	collect light trap from Magurjura Preservation of samples in field office
28th Oct	set sticky paper trap at Magurjura Set up light trap
29th Oct	collect light trap Preservation of sample in field office Set up more sticky paper trap at Magurjura
30th Oct	animal bed trap with goats at Magurjura Collect live sand fly
31th Oct	collect animal bed trap and preserve samples Collect all sticky paper trap Separation of sand fly from sticky paper trap Observe Kakchar & Barma village and set up light traps
1st Nov	collect light traps from Kakchar & Barma Make list of all instruments and separated the tools & instrument as required
2nd Nov	departure from Mymensingh Meeting at icddr,b ,Dhaka

At Nov 3rd second group departed from Dhaka at 1.00 pm.