each patient admitted to a ward will have an attendant to help with feeding, washing etc. so there can be large numbers of people around at times.
Then some will just sit on the grass and have a rest if the chance arises.
Construction work continues in different areas of the hospital estate.
Here are trees felled to prepare the site for our new Mental Health Unit being sawn into planks.
We are hoping to build a further dormitory for our School of Nursing in the next year or two, and meanwhile work continues on the Mothers' Waiting Home...
Meanwhile the multiple types of birds are all around... such as these hammerkops:
The clinical work goes on 24 hours a day. Here is our Maternity Ward, which can be frenetic. The other day Hanna had 3 ladies all with problems needing to deliver at the same time so it can be challenging.
Attendants will arrive with food for patients, often carried in baskets on their heads in time-honoured fashion. Of course the mothers with young infants will carry them on their backs at the same time.
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