The ‘Stream’ Of Water-Borne Disease - Angola 2009 In Review
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »When I first moved to the city of Huambo in central Angola I myself developed a severe case of dysentery, as did my family. Solution? I had a well dug in my front yard - pictured here with the concert ...
Will He See Again? - Angola Day 23
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »Image the pain of slowly loosing your eye sight, knowing that shortly you will be utterly dependent upon others to care for your most basic needs - pain like that experienced by the man in the photo above who is ...
Exploring the Wilderness - Angola Day 21
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »One of the pleasant characteristics of medical life in Angola is that the evening are generally quiet - except for the C-section Monday at 4 AM that just could not wait for daylight. Weekday afternoons are also predictably tranquil. I ...
Sight To The Blind - Angola day 19
Sunday, December 6th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »Pictured above is Steve Collins. This remarkable man began his career as a pastor in Newfoundland. As one of the few educated people in the area, Steve shortly discovered the town's people bringing all their sick to him. So off ...
Truly A Hard Life - Angola Day 17
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »Earlier this week I was talking with a 35-year old Angolan lady who lost her left leg to a land mine 10 years ago. Angola was once home to the highest per capita concentration of land mines in the world! ...
Self-Sacrificing To Care For Their Own - Angola Day 15
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | 1 Comment »My thoughts often turn to the men and women who serve at Kalukembe Hospital. Located about 100 miles NE of Lubango, Kalukembe is a typical, low-resource, isolated town on the Angolan savannah. There the disease of poverty are more apparent, ...
Victorious Morning For Children - Angola Day 13
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »Here at the Evangelical Medical Center of Lubango hospitalized children generally do not do well. Honestly, I doubt this is a reflection on our Center as much as it is a mirror of the nation as a whole. Because of educational, financial, ...
Quinine Dose For A Child? - Angola Day 11
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »Yesterday I was caring for 3 year old child in Emergency here at the Evangelical Medical Center of Lubango. He suffered from malaria and was in respiratory distress. His hemoglobin fell from 10 to 4 in just a few hours - ...
Why THIS child? - Angola Day 9
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | 1 Comment »Here, amid the heavy rain showers, in the background I can hear wailing from the Gomez family. I am so very shocked and saddened to discover that their son, my young patient with typhoid fever, abruptly died! Yesterday, 4 days ...
What’s Binding You? - Angola Day 8
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Posted in 2009 Angola, INMED | No Comments »This morning I was part of the chapel service that the Angolas do here each Thursday. Their singing is amazing, and I find is fascinating to see how they have translated some of songs from English into Portuguese. Sozinho, one ...