Friday, 9 February 2018



Planes, pests and plumbing!!
Friday 9th February
We arrived back at Kagando yesterday evening, 48 hours after leaving home.
The flight out took us on a little mini tour of East Africa. The flight we were supposed to be on from Kigali was cancelled and we were put on a flight flying to Entebbe via Nairobi. All went smoothly however and we were relieved to reach Entebbe to find our cases arriving as well!
We spent the first night at Whitecrest guesthouse. On arrival we found a group of vervet monkeys outside the window of our room and one on the balcony looking in at the window hoping to get in! After hanging around for 15 minutes or so they all decided to head off as clearly they weren’t going to be allowed into our room!
We travelled by car yesterday which was fine except for a section of the road before Fort Portal that the Chinese Road engineers (who seem to be everywhere in Uganda these days) were trying to improve resulting in long sections driven on a murram surface which slowed us down somewhat.
On arrival at Karibu house where we will be staying (as we did on the last occasion we were here), we were met by our lodger, a rather fat mouse who scuttled behind the wardrobe! Ann is keen to institute chemical warfare whereas I am more inclined to take a more lenient approach!
One near disaster was the ball cock and valve on the toilet were malfunctioning causing a continual overflow. On inspection it became clear that the arm of the ball cock had been mounted the wrong way us but during the inspection process the ball dropped off the ballcock arm! Eventually it proved possible to fix the problem but not before some very stressful moments trying to effect the repair.
In the hospital today there were many familiar faces who were very genuinely happy to see us again. There is the ongoing issues of lack of drugs and materials, including the main treatment for malaria, the rapid diagnostic tests for malaria and also the main antibiotic in use for most infections but hopefully these can be reobtained before too long but it was a reminder if indeed one was needed of just how precarious the situation with regard to medical care can be here at times.


Nearly succesful repairing the cistern!!

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