It took me a week to catch up on sleep and email, but now we're back in business.
In the clinic, we have three new volunteers: a husband and wife team of globe-trotting nurses and a thoracic surgery nurse practitioner from California. I think they are all past the wide-eyed, slack-jawed stage of taking in how things work around here, and now they are getting into the swing of things too.
Ryaan, an ER nurse, has been digging around in our store rooms and is putting some useful stuff back in order. Here's a picture of Ryaan (left) working with Anthony, our lab director, to get some optometry equipment up and running.
We are also working on getting ready to start our Reproductive/Child Health (RCH) program. I saw some of the crew working on putting the new RCH office together today. If you were wondering how many men it takes to put together an IKEA style cabinet, the answer apparently is four: our physical plant director to supervise, a groundsman for consultation, the laboratory manager for quality assurance, and one carpenter to actually put in the screws.
We hope to have the RCH office, maternity ward, and prenatal health program in service and ready to go by the end of this year.
In other news, old habits can prove useful. Ever since living in New Mexico, I've always shaken out my shoes each morning to dislodge any scorpions that may have taken up residence during the night. I do this even when I'm staying in places with no scorpions. Yesterday when I was shaking them out before walking to work, I evicted this guy:
I also went on a trip this week to a big referral hospital to the south. It was quite an experience. I'll try to do another post when I get a chance to look through the pictures I took. Apologies for the photo quality. My camera did not survive my trip to the US, so everything is taken on my museum-piece original iPhone.
I have to do shoe-shaking, too. The cat occasionally puts gifts in my work shoes on the porch. Yeeech. And I'm glad to see the good results you get out of that museum piece iPhone.
ReplyDeleteThat phone is still chugging right along after almost eight years of use. It's a sweet little machine.
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