Our team was spread out today and we were busy with many different types of work.
The audiologists went to the Makanissa School for the Deaf where we have been working on all of our other trips. This is a large school for deaf children that has excellent services and also includes siblings of the deaf children to enhance their education. The audiology team fit 20 ear molds, made 10 new molds, did 15 audiograms and did trouble shooting on 20 existing hearing aids. They will be there several other times during the week to continue their work. All of the children wanted the toys and prizes! A nurse from Mekele, 500 miles to the north took a 2.5 day bus ride to come to be trained with our team. Another came from Awassa.
The Cure team did six OR cases today, three ear surgeries and three tumor resections. These children would not have had their operations if our team had not been here. There are several other children the team has seen and we are trying to determine if we can offer them surgical intervention at this time.
The anesthesiologists were at Black Lion with one of the ENT surgeons and had three OR cases. Two were children who have papillomas (wart like growths) in their throat and airway. Taking them out can be a dangerous and complicated procedure. We also had a child who had a large, obvious cancerous tumor who had a biopsy to determine if it is treatable by surgery, chemotherapy or radiation. I have been taking pictures out of a window of the OR at Black Lion since October 2010 of a construction site. The progress is very slow.
We were all finished in enough time to relax a little. Some went swimming or read or sat by the pool, some went for coffee. There are some beautiful flowers on the grounds of the hotel. We are having a relaxing dinner at the hotel before another busy day tomorrow.
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