Thursday January 26th
Ann has been busy today trying out various recipes using local ingredients to see if they might be suitable to use in the Esuubi café when it is up and running. Certainly the results were very good when I sampled them at lunchtime.
Chocolate Brownie, carrot and pineapple cake and mango rock buns!
This morning was spent in a diabetic clinic. So many people just seem to be brought back every month just to get their tablet which is wasteful of the local doctor’s time but more importantly it costs the patients as they have to pay a consultation fee each time. It’s certainly very tough if you end up developing a chronic condition here as it can get very costly No free prescriptions here!
Once again out patients was very busy this afternoon with an 18year old with rheumatoid arthritis, a boy with a psoas abscess, several children admitted with malaria and pneumonia and several other problems. I was just there alone with a medical student from Mbarara which I hope he found useful. The man from yesterday in fact had a perforated gastric ulcer and seems to be doing OK following his operation.
I hope the blog is of some interest. It certainly helps me think through what has happened during the day and to think of ways to help develop the services here.
Keep on blogging!
Then a few quiz pictures
This 9 year old came to out patients today What is the diagnosis?
Ive never seen anything quite like this Any ideas?
Finally what does this Xray show?
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