This week we had the arrival of some new housemates!
Martina, Lorenzo, and Daria are medical student from Italy. They help out
tremendously around the hospital. Anne also arrived within hours after the
Italians, but from Germany to volunteer at the orphanage. Our house right now
is PACKED with 11 people!
Unfortunately, week two of the hospital has been off to a
rocky start. I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather, and had a hard time
focusing at work. I worked at the house Monday afternoon and wrote up some cute
little instructions for phototherapy lights we’d like to install that we found
in the OB ward.
What has been bogging me down the most is the how Nkoaranga
operates. It can be so unorganized, and no one is really aware of what
equipment the hospital owns. The staff lacks a certain initiative to look
through a cabinet and maybe plug some equipment in to see if it works. So far
we’ve been digging through the wards, and finding some perfectly good equipment
that has been neglected.
Donations to Nkoaranga are also just as frustrating, not
because the equipment is broken, but because the donations are usually
irrelevant. It would be nice if our hospital used ECGs, nebulizers, or ESUs,
but it doesn’t. Therefore good equipment collects dust in storage. Our friend,
Tanya, is a nurse from Belgium. She’s been working here for almost four years
now and wishes she could ship all the useless donations back because most of
the time they just sit here taking up space!
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