This morning I visited virtually every patient who is being cared for here at the Lubango Evangelical Medical Center. In the attached photo I’m seeing lady of 60 years who was bitten on her foot by a snake. I also examined a man with heart failure and heart valve disease for whom we can only offer medications – no surgical repair, a paraplegic with bladder obstruction and urine infection, a child with burns to the chest that have healed to the point that we applied skin grafts, a baby of only 2 months convulsing from malaria infection of the brain.
The most critical man is a poor fellow, Manuel, with a dental abscess that erupted into a massive infection that eroded the skin of his entire neck down to the trachea and chest all down to the muscles. In the operating room we pealed away the stinky, black, dead tissue. Manuel’s chance of survival is really low. We asked the pastor to come pray with him before surgery, and YOU could join us in interceding for healing from this flesh-eating infection.