Wednesday July 6th
Today started with an amazing time in the chapel. A mission is just starting with a choir from Congo, preachers from Congo and Zanzibar and 5 friends form Dave and Helens church in Scotland who arrived last night. The choir was amazing singing in Swahili which most of the locals can’t understand but they were excellent. The missioner from Zanzibar spoke as well. He is from a Muslim background very well versed in the Koran and spoke about its legality and that in Islam there is no provision of forgiveness. I have rarely heard anyone speaking with such clarity and authority about the contrasts between Islam and Christianity
Jonah in the boat soon to be swallowed by the big fish!
Ann has been busy at the school helping with some parachute games and the story of Jonah and the Big Fish which they thought was great!
A parachute game under way
I lead a CME session this morning looking at malaria treatment It is such a challenge to get people to accept change particularly trusting the rapid diagnostic tests when they are already not trusting the malaria blood slides the lab is producing So often malaria treatment is started or continued in the face of a negative malaria slide whereas the RDT kits could produce a more reliable answer more swiftly. I shall battle on!
Today has been anaemia day on the wards with a boy of 14 arriving with a haemoglobin level of 1.8 (instead of 12) and another aged 6 with a haemoglobin of 3.4. One of the things the lab is good at here keeping a ready supply of blood for cross matching which is so important in these cases.
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