After a frantic morning rushing round, touching up the paint on bed frames, realising the door had a gap under it big enough to let in a Cobra and trying to rectify this, pondering the very strange and quirky wiring of the building, discovering that the mosquito nets don’t fit the beds and much more,…
Today was marked by a very auspicious event, we became the owners of a goat! Culturally this is one of the highest honours that can be bestowed upon a person, so it was very special indeed. Boozy was given to us by the mother of a child who we met two years ago in very…
The internet has been awful so I am writing with a very vague hope that I will be able to post this, but here goes… We had a patient with a placenta praevia yesterday (when the placenta is sited low in the uterus, reaching or covering the cervical opening). Babies with a placenta like this…
Friday marked the start of my new career as a qualitative researcher, collecting data for my Master’s dissertation. Many challenges to be overcome, not least the added issue of needing to use a translator whilst attempting to overcome the natural shyness and reticence of the Bakiga women. However you can’t help but fall head over…
We are experimenting with running a blog on this website. Helen Smith will be writing occasional entries while she is in Kisiizi. Here is the first offering. Sitting listening to the dawn chorus as I write I can’t help wondering how the new day feels for some of our patients. Each day comes with a…