Friday 25^th February

Ann went off to the nearby orphanage today with Carlie who is one of the people from the UK who has been instrumental in it being set up. They spent a long time holding babies and while Carlie was in a meeting Ann spent a long time on the floor playing with 5 toddlers with at least one of them on her lap at any one time! She also had an opportunity to look at their sand based water filters which we think may be very useful at Ekimumolu. In the afternoon Ann went to the local market and has smuggled in 8 mangoes into the room despite knowing that I’m “lergic” to mangoes!!

Some of Ann's small friends

At the hospital the wards remain busy including a newly diagnosed AIDS patient with definite cryptococcal meningitis. Unfortunately we do not have the necessary drug, amphotericin, to treat her so we are having to make do with a second best treatment. However it is amazing how well people do respond though given the limited range of medications and diagnostic facilities that there are here

One of the sand water filters