Kisiizi is blessed with many visitors and we have had many in the past week or so... Janet an ultrasonographer, with Mark and Darren radiographers made up a team from Countess of Chester hospital helping our imaging services for a fortnight. I certainly have noticed a high standard of chest x-rays on Children's Ward recently.
Then a second team arrived from Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, with two more teams due, each here for a fortnight. They are a mix of nurses and medics and have proved enthusiastic and helpful. They have been involved in fund raising support at home so it is good to be able to show them around here.
Occasionally unexpected visitors appear, such as this moth in out-patients!
A big group of 22 from St Andrew's School in Dublin have been with us a few days mainly to visit a local secondary school with whom they have links but also visiting the hospital. Some of them stayed in the large lounge of the house we are due to move to in a few days time. We have effectively partitioned the house into two functional flats as we don't need all the space and because visitor accommodation is at a premium at present and already it has been put to good use.
A group of ten medical students from Makerere University in Kampala arrived late last night as the bus had broken down on the way. They are here for 4 weeks involved in a community training programme.
One lovely result of the news going around that we are here has been a number of people dropping in to greet us.
One is Eldad who retired from Kisiizi a few years ago after more than forty years of faithful service as a porter with a particular role in looking after the water system which all comes from our capped spring on a nearby hillside.
A group of four electricians from Bwindi hospital have been here learning from our Power Company team about hydro electricity to better look after their own project which one of our own technicians has been overseeing. Our power has been quite reliable since we came this time which is encouraging, unlike the internet connection which has been hopeless and off for many days hence the very sparse postings on this blog!
Then a second team arrived from Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, with two more teams due, each here for a fortnight. They are a mix of nurses and medics and have proved enthusiastic and helpful. They have been involved in fund raising support at home so it is good to be able to show them around here.
Occasionally unexpected visitors appear, such as this moth in out-patients!
A big group of 22 from St Andrew's School in Dublin have been with us a few days mainly to visit a local secondary school with whom they have links but also visiting the hospital. Some of them stayed in the large lounge of the house we are due to move to in a few days time. We have effectively partitioned the house into two functional flats as we don't need all the space and because visitor accommodation is at a premium at present and already it has been put to good use.
A group of ten medical students from Makerere University in Kampala arrived late last night as the bus had broken down on the way. They are here for 4 weeks involved in a community training programme.
One lovely result of the news going around that we are here has been a number of people dropping in to greet us.
One is Eldad who retired from Kisiizi a few years ago after more than forty years of faithful service as a porter with a particular role in looking after the water system which all comes from our capped spring on a nearby hillside.
A group of four electricians from Bwindi hospital have been here learning from our Power Company team about hydro electricity to better look after their own project which one of our own technicians has been overseeing. Our power has been quite reliable since we came this time which is encouraging, unlike the internet connection which has been hopeless and off for many days hence the very sparse postings on this blog!
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