rs. A birth - the Kenyan way. You arrive at the hospital a little before midnight and wait for the baby to be born, at 5:45 h in the morning the baby appears and in the afternoon you go home. The family members then came and greeted the couple.
rs. A group of seven people arrived at the hospital at lunch time. They brought an ill patient with a self-made stretcher and descended the mountain for six hours! Our doctor Wanjara immediately gave him an infusion. The man was dried out. He then got some antibiotics. After 4 hours he was considerably better. His brother, who was among the group anxiously asked if they have to pay something for the treatment. I told him that we first do the necessary and then we can speak about possible payment if at all. Asked why they waited so long to bring him, they said that they first tried to cure him with herbs but without success. They also feared high hospital costs. Until some neighbor told them to go to the Rhein-Valley Hospital...
rs. This morning I got an SMS announcing some Swiss friends to arrive at the Rhein-Valley Hospital in 20 Minutes. So we got ready to greet them and our doctor Wanjara proudlly showed them our premises. Dani, Bruno, Priska and Sibylle are currently working for the Swiss Arlines in Nairobi. Dani said hat he is very impressed about our work. He checked our blog several times in the past and was happy to see everything 1:1.
rs. Today we had our children's day. Luckily the rain stopped so that the mothers could descend from the mountain without problems. The waiting room was full. Many came for vaccinations. We can use one bottle of vaccination medicine for five babies, but we cannot keep the medicine a long time outside the cooler. That's why we invite them all at the same time. We also medically checked the small ones. Our laboratory assistant Caroline helped fill the registration cards, because we have to report to the MOH (Ministry of Health) monthly. There is also a statistic about the current diseases in Kenya.
rs. This girl in our waiting room can also not understand how our weather plays crazy today: hail and rain the whole day. And a temperature of 16 °C which is very low for Kenya. What is worst that our refugees have not enough warm clothes and already many people came with colds.
rs. Bugwua, one of our refugees is proud to present himself with his family for a picture. They all seem to be happy to be here, although they lost all their belongings. The main thing for them is to be alive and getting some care and shelter. Bugwua earns some pocket money by repairing shoes and giving extra lessons for the school people in the evening.
Sunday games in the shadow
