The Board

Last Saturday marked another milestone in our time here. The hospital Board met for the first time this year on Sat 3 May, and we were faced with the challenge of co-ordinating all the papers required for the meeting, organising the logistics of the meeting for 14 board members (only 8 attended in the end), whilst ensuring that our reports were also ready.
Thankfully, all went well and some key decisions were taken which would help us in planning the future of both the hospital and the nursing school.

The hospital has had, for the past three weeks, the privilege of hosting a medical student and her mum, from Texas USA who chose to do her medical elective here. It was for us an opportunity for our work to be reviewed and assessed by an outsider, as they have shed a different insight into our work here. She helped with our mobile clinic and had some very interesting experiences. On two occasions, the villagers presented her with two chickens and other foodstuffs as gifts.

J & Little J with Erin and Karen

There have been a few challenges in the past two months. The pump on our only well that provided us with good drinking water broke down, and now our main generator - which supplies electricity to the hospital, has lost a few crucial parts – so most of the hospital is without electricity at night. We are relying mainly on portable generators to provide us with electricity to selected homes. Thankfully, most of the operations are done with the help of portable generators. The pump by the way, was fixed a couple of weeks ago so we are doing ok with water - but still no pipe borne water yet. Hopefully that would be resolved pretty soon.
Please pray that we can get sponsors to help with the provision of basic utilities such as water and electricity.
God bless ya all.

On the No 2 River beach - splashing around.