I taught the trauma assessment class yesterday and used Melba as my patient for demonstration. Everyone thought she was my mom! Things went fairly well and in the afternoon session we had opportunity to practice, which is always fun to watch. It was the lone midwife in our class who seemed to pick up things the most quickly, a sharp woman she is!
Lisa and I were able to round with one of the doctors in internal medicine. We are seeing quite a few respiratory infections, cases of ascites and case of heart failure.
It would appear that our next assignment is to fix (figure out how it works) an EKG machine, teach basic EKG interpretation and prepare a basic curriculum on heart failure. This wouldn’t be a problem accept for the fact that poor Lisa is only given 2 hours to present 5 subjects! We shall see…
Dorothy is having a great time working with the malnutrition program. She may even get to go to a village to see the community nutrition programs! We have also charged her with the task of designing some backboard straps for the two new backboards that have been made here a Kibogora since I was here in 2008. (See blog posts of May 2008 to truly understand the excitement of this). Lisa also had the brilliant idea of making pinwheels for the patients to blow on (because there are no incentive spirometers) for pulmonary hygiene; another great way to put Dorothy’s creativity to work!
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