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Sterilizers

This is a brief update but important. Through your generosity both Kikuyu Orthopedic Rehabilitation Center and Chogoria Hospitals have received new autoclaves to sterilize instruments. They are important to the efficiency of the the operating rooms. Thank you.

The Poor Patient Fund at work.

This is about a poor Kenyan man. He has been referred to our Poor Patient Fund for Kikuyu Orthopedic Rehabilitation Center. “We have a case of one Joseph Wanjiku who fractured an ankle in an accident several months ago. He apparently has had a cast installed twice and...

Last post

January 23 Today, we visited the A.I.C. Kajiado Children’s Care Center. The scope of their programs, much like the DCC in Maua, is to bring disabled children to the center and direct them to the care they need. Some need physical therapy, and some surgery. You help...

Tumutumu

January 20    Good evening from Kikuyu. Doug and I visited the PCEA Hospital in Tumutumu which is on the west side of Mount Kenya. The area is mountainous and green. Tea fields climb the slopes.     This is the first time Wilson Rehab has visited this hospital in...

Some more safari

January 19 We just returned from our safari. While the drive to the Maasai Mara is long( 5.5 hours) the drives around the Mara never disappoint. There is always something you have never seen before. Of interest is that all the safari guides communicate with each other...

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...