Warning: Viewer discretion advised. Images below are graphic and potentially disturbing. Tuesday morning, I came into clinic, I happened to be the first one there. I noticed a girl sitting on a cot – a whole group of people had carried her into clinic. They showed me her foot – it was wrapped up […]
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Here are some sites you’ll see on a normal day as you walk into the clinic. Direk at his desk where he writes up the patients’ charts for the day Waiting room full–Rhoda busy in the background Fre Adolph weighing a patient Fre Noes at his post–He gives number cards to new patients as they
This girl came in a few days ago with a wound on her eye lid. The story was that she fell out of bed and hit a rock. (We were suspicious that the story wasn’t true.) Cleaning and preparing to stitch. There was this glob of tissue that needed removed before I could stitch.
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We saw around 50 patients at clinic this morning. Finally the last dossier was made, the last consultation done, and the last pills handed out. Now it’s time to head home for lunch! Or is it? Here comes a crowd of school children, and one girl is holding something over her head. They are headed
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Well, here is the medical team with Efadel and his mother. It was a sad and happy day when we sent them off. He is now walking some on his own, and the infection sights are almost totally healed. They are still changing the bandages every day and coming back for check-ups every few days.
This is a case that came in yesterday–a 14 day old baby with an odd lump on it’s head. We’re not sure what is is, but it’s beyond us so we told them that they need to go out to a bigger hospital. The lump started a few days after birth and has been growing.
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