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Derek's Journal

Latest Updates from the field.

 

Update: July 16th to 25th
Published: Jul 25

Surgery is very light at the moment as the rains have started, so everyone heads out to plough their land and plant their seed for the year and to start the 3 months intensive land cultivation.

The main OR assistant is off on a months holiday and another OR assistant unforunately was involved in a motor vehicle accident and has a fraactured lower arm and ruptered lateral lifament of his knee.

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Update June 28-July 15: Burkina Faso
Published: Jul 22

  Back on the road to revisit Sheltering Wings Orphanage at Yako, Margaret (Tauranga) has plans and a vision for increasing the play/learning resources for the young children, and benefiting the older children also, with an outdoor safe play area with easily made components, under the shade of large trees that are already on site, in a suitable area. I deliver some much needed children’s medicines to the small first aid post staffed by 2 Burkina short course trained nurses.  While these two have been working in the orphanage, Ruth has noticed a reduced need for child hospitalizations in nearby Sentra Medical.

  

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