The Rhein - Valley Hospital in Nakuru-Kasambara opened in 2004 and is directed by Ruth Schäfer of Switzerland. The hospital relies solely on donations for buying food and medicine for the poor and suffering locals. Moreover, all funds are used directly for patient care. Every year thousands of people visit the hospital for medical help and nowadays also for food and shelter. Blog Editor: Kedar Misani.

You can send your donations to the Alpha Rheintal Bank, CH - 9442 Berneck, Switzerland; Clearing 6920, BIC RBABCH22926;
IBAN: CH75 06920016 1856 71206, Verein Rhein-Valley Hospital, CH - 9450 Altstätten, Switzerland.


Saturday, April 19, 2008

Many refugees are still traumatized

sh. We have several patients who are still suffering from the traumatic circumstances of the last 3 1/2 months, for example this mother with her two little children (see picture right) who had to watch with her own eyes how one of her close relatives was killed. - Today we cleaned the hospital especially the maternity because it is a rule at the Rhein-Valley Hospital to clean and sterilize this section after a birth took place. The toilets for the refugee camp still didn't arrive. We got the excuse that the truck involved had to be repaired. So it will probably be only next week that we can finish our sanitary installations. At lunch time our grandmother schuschu could leave the hospital. Her two sons took care of her and thanked us profoundly for all the help at the hospital. Later in the afternoon we again had a heavy thunderstorm and we were happy to get home without any calamities because the Kenyans use to drive in these circumstances as if the streets were dry...


The big clean-up took more than 3 hours

This morning we saw some animals on the way to work. Click on the picture to see it in large size or visit our Kenya Photos blog.

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