The weekend and more

January 17 Good evening. Last Friday was much like Thursday. We saw many children with similar problems. Cerebral palsy is usually associated with lack of oxygen at birth suggest poor conditions.  Saturday we traveled back to Kikuyu. Sunday we passed the day with our...

A word from Claire.

January 13 Todays blog is written by Claire a student in college exploring how she might serve in Kenya during gap years before medical school. Today, we traveled into the surrounding villages of Maua to visit children with orthopedic issues. It’s hard to process the...

Kids

January 12 Good evening. We left Chogoria this morning and arrived for lunch at Maua. Here we met a group of professors and students working at integrating the laboratory clinicians with medical clinicians. We then went to the Disabled Children Center which is next to...

Clinic

January 11 Good afternoon . Today was the first orthopedic surgery clinic I have participated in for quite awhile. As always, in terms of difficult cases this clinic was no different, although there wasn’t anything I haven’t seen before. Most of the problems were the...

A quiet day

January 10 Good morning. There is not much happening today. There is no orthopedic clinic or surgeries today. I paid a visit to the operating room to check on its function. It works well and the nurses expressed their gratitude for the new operating rooms that your...