For the last 3 days Ann has walked 45mins to the café from the middle of Mityana. The last scenic part of the journey is where Great Blue Turacos can be seen flying with the café in the distance. At the café, situated on the main Mityana to Fort Portal road, she has begun the task of making sure that the menu can be achieved by the team of Ugandans working there. Despite the fact that most Ugandans have never seen, let alone used, an oven the cakes and biscuits at the café are now extremely tasty. The cooking of savoury dishes is improving although it is a challenge for those cooking to get lemon marinated fish fillet and chips both hot at the same time! The fish today was as delicious as it sounds, but would have been even better if it had been hot! Storage of cooked food has been very much hampered by lack of electricity over the past 3 days. There are many workmen finishing off assorted jobs and today the first signpost was put in place marking the entrance of the café. A number of local people subsequently popped in to have a look. A low key "opening" is planned for March 21st when a friend of ours, Simon Peter, is going to bring about 8 or 9 tour operators to visit the café. Hopefully soon after that tourists will start to visit the café in larger numbers.

Meanwhile at Kagando I went off for a visit to the hospital at Bwera near the Congo Boarder.

The hospital at Bwera opened in 2001

Patients outside the medical ward

 

Voted the second best district hospital in Uganda in 2013 it seemed quite well run in some ways although the doctors seem a scarce commodity. I particularly wanted to visit the laboratory to see what work they had been doing on antibiotic resistance. What I discovered was very concerning in that many of the commonly seen bacteria are now resistant to a wide range of antibiotics and as in the UK MRSA is an emerging problem. I took the opportunity to photograph their lab books for the past 2 years so that a more careful analysis of their results can be done over the next week or so.

 

The lab seemed well run and efficient

Travel was by public transport ie motorcycle (Bodaboda) at the start and finish and local taxi in between They do seem to kindly offer the front seat to mzungus. They are worried about seating extra people in the front seat and being pulled in by the ever active traffic police. They don’t seem to worry about the 5 or 6 people crammed into the back seat!!

View form the hill on which the hospital is situated of Bwera town and Congo beyond

I am leaving Kagando on Friday to join Ann in Mityana. It has been a very full and busy time which I hope has been of some benefit to the hospital.