Here are a few quick shots of the hospital where I will be spending most of my time. It is a refferal hospital for the region but is still quite basic and seemingly haphazard....I know I would definitely not want to be a patient here.

Below is the entrance to the hospital. It is always quite crowded like this so I am quite flabergasted as to how they got the picture of it that went on our website as it was completely deserted. Its a gauntlet of 'Mambos', 'Jambos' and 'Taxi?' as everone tries to talk to the mzungus as we walk in. Our swahili is definitely getting better but I'm sure noone is fooled. We are still tourists to them.

I am spending these first two weeks in surgery. We had a 3 and a half hour ward round yesterday that was just a parade of horrors. The worst of which was a 5month old who had been bitten on his genitals by a rabbid dog. It was not a pretty sight to see what would have been his prize possesion when he was older, withered and dead and definitely beyond repair.

But in all, the surgeons here do do a great job with what they have. I helped clean and dress many burn wounds on lots of poor little kids today and it was nice to see the doctors still showing compassion and empathy even though this is a daily occurence for them. They have such a hard job.

Till next time x