The Medical Clinic

Our team, which had three nurses on it (including me), worked with a Ugandan doctor one day holding a medical clinic in Kyally. (Kyally, pronounced 'Charlie', is a village in Mpigi that is about a 20 minute drive away from the church). People came from all over...we saw about 200 patients that day. This is a picture of the waiting area.














Medicine is very different in Uganda compared to Canada...it was a steep learning curve for sure! We saw many, many people with malaria, but within the first hour we had run out of the correct medication to treat it. As our medication supply became depleted, the best we could do was to give them 3 days worth of Tylenol to treat the fever.



These kids watched us through the window all day!






Here I am preparing medications for a patient. We worked non-stop that day...I think I took about a 10 minute break to eat a power bar, and a short break to do an interview for the Ugandan national television, but otherwise we saw patient after patient all day! Soon, a medical clinic will be built on the 10 acre property that belongs to Peace Portal Community Church. This clinic will provide much needed regular access to health care for the people living in the villages near the church.