Monday 24th Aug

We took a taxi to Sanka Yani, another poor isolated community with 300 families. Many are living in Adobe brick houses with dirt floors. We are staying at the health post which is normally visited by 3 to 4 people per day for child health checks, vaccinations, rabies injections against rabid animals and ante natal checks. On our first day the number of patients swelled to 20 including undiagnosed hypertensives, urinary infections, and we needed to incise a a 2 year olds neck to drain a large abscess .We were told he lived 5 kms away and 2000 ft higher in altitude. This very sick boys mother carried him and a younger sibling to the clinic. We did not have the heart to ask her to return again for redressing the wound so we have been to visit the house 3 times. Like so many others the house is made of Adobe bricks with mud floor.

Beautiful country, with fantastic climate and spread out poor population but I´m still trying to find best where to place Troppodoc in this country to assist addressing among other things the high infant mortality.