Wednesday 11^th November

Today is definitely not a good day to be a grasshopper! There has suddenly be a plague of grasshoppers of almost biblical proportions. There are hundreds flying around From the grasshoppers point of view everyone wants to eat them! I currently have 3 small children chasing them all over the veranda of the house where I am staying. The staff at the guest house have had a quiet day as no one is staying there or eating there today. So what better way to fill your time than catch grasshoppers-a whole saucepan full! The crows also seem to be having something of a field day and even the chickens are picking a few off!

Pied Crows queuing up for a juicy grasshopper or two

Nothing better to do in the lunch hour that catch grasshoppers on our lawn!

 

The hospital remains fairly busy. The young man with severe malaria has suddenly started passing urine again after a week of renal failure. He has made a most dramatic recovery.  We had a useful meeting last night agreeing a final formulary list of drugs the hospital should be using. The hope is that by involving all the doctors working here a consensus has been reached and prescribing of drugs in the hospital will become more logical and standardised. Striving for the very best clinical standards in the prevailing conditions is what I’m hoping my few weeks here will have helped to encourage.

Ann has had a mixed few days in Mityana with some challenging meetings but also some more relaxed times with the children in the school helping in some of the classes.

Dora practising her Ds

Helping with and RE lesson

 

At times it feels as if we get bogged down in all the details of what is happening and it can be refreshing to be reminded that our main purpose in Mityana is to provide a home, education and hope to all the children attending the school and living at Ekiwulumo!

Children in class

If others are getting stressed, Im staying chilled out!