It was dark. Supper was almost ready when there was a knock at the gate. As someone went out to see what the need was, they were greeted by a man with blood streaming down his head, dripping down onto his shoes. His colleague’s speech was slurred with drink, and neither of them could walk […]
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Greetings in Jesus’ name! The clinic has been officially “closed” since December 22nd, but when a lady comes from Ti Guave and is about to have a baby, it’s only reasonable to open the doors up and let her in! This young lady was in the area when she went into labor, so they came
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Amongst the business yesterday, a man appeared with a towel wrapped around his arm. His problem? A large gash on his left arm, caused by a cow’s horns! Anita and Thea were about ready to go to the clinic for the day, so they just stayed around to stitch him up. Checking blood pressure… Anita
Seems like all Aleg has come out and decided to have their babies in December! We’ve had 3 births in the last few days, and another in progress right now! Thankfully, after having several hard cases, the last two have gone well, with no complications! Praise the Lord!! One of the ladies had to go
We have an update on the baby that couldn’t breathe… On Monday night they decided to take it into town because our oxygen tanks were quickly being depleted. The baby would need a full supply in the coming days if it were to have a chance of survival. We had kept all its vitals at
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Last night there was another lady in labor at the clinic. When the baby was born, it was not breathing, so we had to do CPR and oxygen on it. It was a little girl! Steve, Anita, Thea, and Virginia all are gathered around; Steve was operating the oxygen mask, Anita was checking vitals, Thea
Baby ER… another baby that couldn’t breathe, Read More »
The other night I was going into the generator room to do a few things when one of the ladies called out from Steve’s front porch. They said that I should get my camera. It was getting dark, so I couldn’t really see what was going on up there on the porch. However, not asking
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People wait their turn outside, sitting on the wooden benches. As they are called inside, the patients have their blood pressure and weight charted. It’s very VERY hard work… 🙂Fre Direk takes a snooze towards the end of the day. This dear lady asked to have her picture taken.She was just so thrilled when she
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On Friday night there was another baby born at clinic (seems like the season for babies around here!) Unfortunately it wasn’t breathing once it was born, so Steve, Thea, and Anita had to do CPR (compressions and ventilations by bag valve maske with oxygen) for a while. The heart beat was good enough then that
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This is the lady we took out to T-Goave a little over 2 weeks ago for a C-section because of complications during her labor. Click here to see the blog post for that trip. We had the opportunity to bring her back to Aleg on Sunday and snapped a few pictures! She was so happy,
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