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 […]
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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
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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
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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,
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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
A few weeks ago a man appeared at the clinic with some cloths wrapped around his lower leg- he was limping and seemed to be in quite a bit of pain. When the cloths were taken away this is what they found… The man’s ankle was being eaten away by a huge infection- his whole
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I have seen many pictures of little children from African, India, even Haiti here, sitting in the streets, or in washtubs, severely malnourished with thin arms and swollen bellies- but never have I seen one up close with my own eyes- until now, that is. I was in my office doing some paperwork when someone
Back in February of 2011 this boy came to our clinic with a severely deformed foot- a short while after that we sent him out for major reconstructive surgery. They came back the other day to show us his progress- and what amazing progress he has made! (See the original post here)
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