Tuesday 8th February
Internet is sorted! It involved a rapid return trip to Kasese around 45km away. As always the car was a little cramped with up to 10 people. It needed some cooperative driving with me releasing the handbrake at one point. But mission accomplished and also the opportunity to do a little shopping. When I returned from Kasese I spent a couple of hours helping in the operating theatre but to be honest I’m still pretty weary after all the travelling. The joint ward round earlier this morning was encouraging with Marvin one of the Ugandan junior doctors which genuinely felt like a joint learning experience. There seemed to be several young women all with symptoms suggestive of first presentation of Schizophrenia which was both unusual and challenging! Even Marvin who isn’t from this area was struggling to understand their stories. With so many different tribal languages and only really English as a universally used but not widely spoken language even the Ugandan Doctors need quite a bit of translation help which isn’t something Id anticipated.
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