Maria
Maria came to the clinic with TB in her lymph gland so we referred her to hospital in Gobabis (120km from the clinic in Eupkiro) to start her treatment.
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When she was discharged she was being supervised by the State Clinic
TB program. One day she came to see us
instead because of a “problem with her back”.
We discovered that she had spinal TB, the state clinic had diagnosed
this, but unfortunately they had not treated it. They simply told her to see a
Doctor. Dr Sarah therefore took her back
to hospital. Now she is in hospital in Windhoek receiving specialist care.
Whilst caring for Maria Dr Sarah noticed two of
her four children were malnourished. She
therefore enrolled them onto our feeding program to boost their nutrition
levels.
Zacheo
Earlier this year a young boy called
Zacheo came into the clinic with an abscess in his mouth as a result of not
brushing his teeth properly. We see a
lot of this at the clinic so Jana and Lauren, two of our medical volunteers,
had fun teaching all the local children the importance of bushing their teeth! They distributed heaps of tooth brushes
and toothpaste.
We are delighted that we have started
our immunisation program. We extend our sincere thanks to Frabrizio Feruglio,
Haig Babikyan, Alan and Jane Crack, Antony Clements and Rob Duijvelshoff who
donated money towards a new fridge and fridge battery. We can now try and
improve the local immunisation rates, protecting children from preventable
diseases such as measles, polio and tetanus. The fridge is portable and
therefore we can take it when we do our outreach clinics in the more remote
areas of Epukiro.
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