It has been a crazy few days here. You would think that by our 10th
trip to Ethiopia everything would be old hat.
Not so.
We have had a busy few days.
Tuesday we did OR and clinic at Cure.
Wednesday we had OR at Cure and our audiology team went to the Makanessa
School for the Deaf where we see all of the students and evaluate their
hearing. We had 4 ENT surgical cases
today and 4 orthopaedic cases, and that took all day.
On Tuesday afternoon our two anesthesia residents and CRNA
had a tour of Black Lion Hospital with one of the Ethiopian anesthesia
residents. Today the two anesthesia
residents went to see a local government hospital. It was an eye opening experience to say the
last. We readily take so much for
granted in the US.
Most of our team had dinner at our favorite local Korean restaurant
tonight.
But most importantly, after the President of Healing the
Children spent the last three days at the Addis Ababa airport, we finally got our four bags out of
customs today!!!!!!!
Dr. Glenn and I have been meeting with lots of people who
want us to provide services to them. We
are constantly trying to figure out the best way to do so. It is a difficult thing to figure out. It seems to work best when we can find a way
to help Ethiopians get what they need, but it isn’t always an easy thing to
accomplish.
Time for bed.
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