18/3/2009: Day 35, Kikori Hospital
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Two women were the focus of attention today. One, probably younger than us, had been having shortness of breath for the last few days – pneumonia ? TB, with perhaps an element of anaemia. She was transfused (with type O blood from a very generous ...
16/3/2009: Day 33, Kikori Hospital
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I did my 2nd delivery today – a multipara whose baby came slipping out in its sac and we ruptured it just in time. That express delivery caused her a tear though, so I got the chance to do some suturing. Ruth got her ...
13/3/2009: Day 30, Kikori Hospital
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We went for our first general ward round this morning, and found out that they’ve been unusually quiet these few days. Well, all the better to rest and make bilums! With Dr Manar and her English accent here, and our return to standing ward rounds, ...
12/3/2009: Day 29, Kikori Hospital
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We’re finally at Kikori Hospital, and have been for just about 24 hours now. We arrived at approximately 6 pm yesterday evening, a whole day earlier than expected, from patrolling some of the villages between Kapuna and here. In the three days, we visited 4 ...
7/3/2009: Day 24, Kapuna Hospital
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The children’s ward round was in our slightly incapable hands on Friday, because Dr. Valerie was going to Baimuru for some HIV teaching, and to bring Robbie and Debbie Petterson and another medical student, Brent Cumming, back to Kapuna. Thankfully for PNG timing, they didn’t ...
5/3/2009: Day 22, Kapuna Hospital
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Sometimes some things just come in waves – in one ward round I’d see all the ones with enlarged lymph nodes, then in the next I’d see all the ones with urinary troubles. Deliveries come in waves too, as well as some special cases. ...
27/2/2009: Day 16, Kapuna Hospital
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We’ve been giving lessons in applied anatomy and physiology to the CHW students these few days. The class, 16 girls and 8 guys (I think), are from many different backgrounds and English proficiencies, and not knowing where they’re coming from makes it hard to determine ...
26/2/2009: Day 15, Kapuna Hospital
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »A bunch of patients had gone across to Kikori over the weekend for X-Rays to be taken, when transport was sent for the VIPs for the graduation ceremony, and they’d arrived the day before. This morning they all turned up for ward round, and after ...