Clinic Day

I wish We could send you some pictures, but the internet connection is just not able to handle that much information. The sights here are amazing

We had clinic today. We saw 38 children (well one was 30 years old) and we scheduled surgeries on 34. Monday will be busy with eight procedures and the rest of the days will have fewer but longer and more complicated procedures. The families were all very pateint as there was a lot of wiating. After we saw them, then the waited for us to organize the OR week. Some need studies so we needed to arragnge those today. There is a CT scan and MRI here at KATH. We can also get VCUGs which took one phone call to arrange. The children are mostly older than we see in the US and they are all small for thier age. But act like kids- once he pulled out our camera's they were all little hams. They were very good too, since they had to wait with their parents and sometimes siblings too. All the kids get admitted the day before and stay for days after surgery. Old school yes but they need to be watched and since I doubt many of thm have access to clean water all the time.

We worked thru the day (taking a quick break for lunch) and then late afternoon we did a little sight seeing to the Kente village to see the cloth being made and get some gifts for people back home. I bought a little trinket in return for asking a 19 year old boy about his school and his livig conditons and a sign of the times he wanted my email address to write me. I was not bold enough to ask him if he went to the doctor at all for check ups. After all that is was late so we traveled back to the guest house. The streets were calmer than in the morning.

One the way to KATH we drove through the heart of Kumasi. It is a busy place in the morning. A lot of people selling out of there shops or on the street- people waiting for buses, on buses a lot of people out on the street. People everywhere. Traffic traffic. We saw teh new trauma center they are building- in one eyar they have made a lot of progress.

The OR is set up and we just have a few things to do before Monday.

~Stephanya Shear