Anne on Childrens ward

Childrens ward with poster donated by Kidsart Qld

None shall pass!!















Friday 16th July

The rain today is so loud that at the moment you cannot hear anything.
Will try and send some photos: this one is great - he is on guard, and the roof he is guarding is on the right, awaiting attachment!!

Sad just now on the wards with so many sick ones.

We are having 150-170 outpatients every day just now. It apparently has never been this busy, maybe yes on a Monday after a weekend, but not these high numbers every day such as we are experiencing now.

The majority with malaria, quite a few with typhoid, and children continue to be admitted with pneumonia and anaemia.

Three days ago, a small baby came in with mother and two siblings; the baby had pneumonia, very congested lungs, and could hardly get its breath. Apex beat uncountable.

The baby has been struggling here for 3 days now. Oxygen from our oxygen separator machine (which only gives a small percentage of oxygen from the atmosphere), and even then it depends on the quality of the room air from which it has to extract the oxygen.

The room air quality must often be low, when everyone wants to get into the room to see a baby in distress. Every drug we have this baby has had, and we have prepared the mother for the worst, but today she had had enough of us all doing things (IV cannulation, oxygen masks strapped to her baby’s face, drugs). She wanted everything removed so she could comfort her child.

Guess what?? The baby is so much better. A mother knows!