First day, the fire
Door: Edwin
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15 April 2015 | Oeganda, Kumi
Next, they welcome me officially and traditionally by making fire inside the chapel! (I need some “warming up” they say, since I am from a cold country). One by one they all start rubbing their hands as a wave becoming louder and louder then suddenly they CLAP! I feel welcomed and warmed with this personal ‘fire’ I applaud and thank them and start my first day!
Dr. Olupot, the medical director, shows me around the hospital terrain in person. Everywhere I am introduced and I am “very welcome” to come to Kumi.
The hospital consists of a big fenced terrain with gate , several ward buildings, two operation theaters (one maternity, one general), paramedic buildings (a.o. orthopaedic workshop, fysiotherapy, cooking area), two water towers (pumped with water from 10km away), the buildings are connected by dirtpaths or stone paths through the grass, outside the perimeter a farmfield (left abandoned for several years due to raids and theft of the cattle by rebels and tribes), and even an airstrip! Many employers live just outside the hospital with home + farmfield. I’m sure to forget something, it’s quite a village all together.
After the tour I start in the operating theatre, first observing and aiding where possible, mainly orthopaedic surgery, e.g. helping to set bone fractures. From tomorrow on I will assist with operations.
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