Tuesday 25 November 2014

Mount cyangugu clinic

23 11 14 Mount Cyangugu

I awoke up to a bright morning with beautiful birdsong and fisherman singing on the lake. After breakfast  the little group had various tasks Rob John and Peter were mending filters then a visit from the pastor and teacher from the church we visited yesterday to teach them how to use the two filters which they has donated.
I went up to the clinic which was a hive of activity very busy with many people attending the out patients a few inpatients and a very busy building plot where the new clinic for maternity services was going up. Apparently this will be ready for use by December but there certainly seemed a lot to do.  I had a tour and delivered some medical books on midwifery from England then a pleasant walk back to a light lunch of soup.
Some of the team went off to see the Mayor who is the head of local administration. Jonathan and Judy went up to town and were going on to visit a widow with HIV. Mary and I went back up to Mount Cyangugu by taxi, Mary to visit Bertha and myself to do a teaching session at the clinic.   The nurses really enjoyed the french DVD and my powerpoint presentation but quite dificult to get them to be that interactive as it is not the sort of teaching they are used to.
 Mary giving Bertha her laptop


Peter training pastors from Gisakura Church
Mary was  greeted with open arms by Bertha and Ephraim. Many mixed emotions as Bertha had just given birth to a beautiful little baby but her mother had just died very suddenly of a gastric haemorrhage.  However they welcomed us very generously providing Mary with a meal while I did the teaching. They were overjoyed to see the computer we had brought for them from Barbara, which they will recieve at the end of the trip. We were walking home when a very smrt new car drew up and we were ushered into the bishop’s car for a ride home. He stayed and chated for about an hour. The an evening meal of really african buffet: yams, matoke, casava, sambasa the little fish that come from the lake and the red African beans which I love; followed by really jucy pineapple. Then we did some African drumming on the table, finally to bed

    

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