June 2012

Yes, you guessed it- another incident with a pick! This time two brothers were working in their family garden. The older of the two was working with a pick and the younger was working the ground with his hands. In the process of time, the older lost control of his pick, sending it sailing through

This phrase has it’s origins in old tradition, going as far back as ancient Persian culture (though in Persian, literally translated, it was “finger’s tip rule”) and is found in old English writings dating back to 1685… yet it still holds much meaning in our modern-day speech. It’s typically used to describe a principle- one

The man with the infected leg has been faithfully coming to the clinic, every day,  taking his medicine and cleaning the wound. His consistency is paying off, along with the faithfulness of our nurses taking care of him each afternoon.  Compare his leg in this image to the others here! The difference is quite amazing!! We know now (for

First up today is a lady with a split knee. She was going to market today, but since it has been raining a lot the last while there were a bunch of loose rocks on the road. She slipped on one and fell straight down on her front- her kivèt (that she had been carrying

Yesterday there was another baby born! Thankfully it was born around 3:30 in the afternoon instead of the middle of the night! It was a baby girl, weighed a mere 5.5lbs and entered into the world without any complications! Here she is! The proud father! The proud Grandmother! And the happy nurses! Unfortunately, the mother

The large number of patients coming into the clinic continues; Within the last week the nurses saw over 400 people! People sitting outside, some waiting to be seen, some waiting for medicine,  others crowding around the pharmacy window. *** The nurses sterilize the medical instruments each month. Here are some shots of the tools they

This man, unfortunately, had an accident- an accident with a pick, that is. Yes, he was working in a garden crew and someone hit him with their pick and split his nose wide open!  (Please, no jokes about picking noses… 🙂 He came into the clinic Friday afternoon and Michael got right to work on

Often we have patients come in with rock-related injuries; a rock fell on them, they fell onto a rock, some rocks gave way in their garden and they fell down the hillside… But none are more interesting than the stories which accompany the cases caused by thrown rocks: there is always some excuse, some reason,

Yesterday was another big day at the clinic! We had over 75 people come through. Last week we discovered why so many people have been coming through lately… there was a clinic about 2 hours away that was turned into a CTC because of a local epidemic- so all the people that normally would go