The 75 mattresses gifted by the Governor of our province and taken to the railway station on October 29th arrived safely at our local station on the 6th February !
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
February Update
February 2009 and a belated happy New Year. My apologies for not being able to update since the end of November 2008 but the problem has been with our internet connections or lack of them due to our bush situation. The powers that be assure is the problem is being looked into...
Sandy and I are fine and being kept out of mischief with the medical work and church work and for Sandy her cultivating. She is a great motivator and has been organising the folks to grow corn peanuts and soya beans. She has already harvested most of the corn and some of the peanuts so that is a great help for the nutrition centre.
I had an interesting case at the Maternity recently. I was called in the early hours one morning to see lady who had delivered on the village a dead baby of about 5 + mths but had been brought to hospital because of a retained placenta. On examining the patient I discovered a second baby which was still alive and this was confirmed the following morning by ultra sound scanning. After consultation with our nearest mission Doctor 90 km away it was decided to give her antibiotic cover and to observe her. The first placenta still being insitu but she was not haemorrhaging. She did well for 3 wks but sadly last weekend she delivered after no apparent labour pains, another dead baby and again the placenta was retained. At this point she was transferred to the medical centre for Dilatation and Curretage or Hysterotomy whatever was deemed necessary by the Doctor in charge. We had hoped that she would continue to term but I have certainly never had a patient before who waited that long to deliver her 2nd twin ! DV I hope to be in touch more often now.
Sandy and I are fine and being kept out of mischief with the medical work and church work and for Sandy her cultivating. She is a great motivator and has been organising the folks to grow corn peanuts and soya beans. She has already harvested most of the corn and some of the peanuts so that is a great help for the nutrition centre.
I had an interesting case at the Maternity recently. I was called in the early hours one morning to see lady who had delivered on the village a dead baby of about 5 + mths but had been brought to hospital because of a retained placenta. On examining the patient I discovered a second baby which was still alive and this was confirmed the following morning by ultra sound scanning. After consultation with our nearest mission Doctor 90 km away it was decided to give her antibiotic cover and to observe her. The first placenta still being insitu but she was not haemorrhaging. She did well for 3 wks but sadly last weekend she delivered after no apparent labour pains, another dead baby and again the placenta was retained. At this point she was transferred to the medical centre for Dilatation and Curretage or Hysterotomy whatever was deemed necessary by the Doctor in charge. We had hoped that she would continue to term but I have certainly never had a patient before who waited that long to deliver her 2nd twin ! DV I hope to be in touch more often now.
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