The past few days have been very exciting and challenging. The hospital is planning to increase the villages covered by the mobile clinic and this requires assessment visits to these villages where the elders and members of the Village Dev. Committees are consulted. Michael has visited a few villages recently hoping to start the new visits before the end of the month.
Gathering of some of the village people at a couple of vllages we visited (Apologies for the bad quality)
The students at the school have been very busy too. The final year students were placed in the nearby villages for 3 weeks as part of their public health practical training sessions. Their task involved building toilets, clearing the surroundings, building plate racks. A very serious problem in this part of the world is Lassa Fever – similar to Ebola virus or haemorrhagic dengue.
(Public Health Students on placement at one of the nearby villages - Fejia)
It is spread by contamination of food by rats. The students’ work involves educating the community on the risk of disease and the benefits of good practices to prevent the spread of such diseases.
An additional objective of this 'placement' is to expose the students to ‘village living’ with the hope that a few may choose to work in the villages rather than 'flocking' to the big cities and towns such as Freetown, Bo and Kenema. We are yet to see the results.
The family are all well when we left them and we hope they continue to remain well. We thank everyone who prayed for us as we made our journeys across the globe to attend to urgent family business. Continue to pray that our time here – another few months- will be fruitful. We will endeavour to keep the blog updated regularly.
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