Sorry I've been a little slow with my updates. It's been a busy week with a lot of things to do so I'll just give a short recap.
Yesterday Dorothy and Melba went to visit the Batwah Pygmie village with the hospital chaplian. Apparently it was quite the amazing experience but I have yet to see their pictures as yesterday afternoon and last night were so full.
Lisa and I finally got the 12 lead EKG machine working properly. The radiology tech is the one who does the EKGs here so we spent some time with Xavier showing him how to use the new machine. It will be interesting to do some follow up and see how often it is used and what kinds of patients are getting EKGs ordered.
I also had the opportunity to go out with the ambulance. We went to a nearby health center to pick a woman in labor with possible fetal distress. I don't really know much about OB so I couldn't really offer much in that department, but I was able to learn more about the actual ambulance, it's equipment and the transport system.
In the afternoon, my class did some ambulance drills. I think it's safe to say that everyone had a lot of fun. Our assigned pretent patients did a great job acting sick or injured and there was a lot of laughter involved. We drew quite the crowd!
It's now time to start heading out to Kigali where we will visit the Bourbon (Rwanda's Starbucks with the most wonderful Rwandan coffee ever!) and perhaps visit the genocide museum. We fly out to Kenya tomorrow afternoon. It's hard to believe that the trip is almost over.
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