For the first time since I paid 100 pounds for my Rabies vaccines I am relieved that I have had them. 3 people died from Rabies in the hospital the day before yesterday when a Rabid dog in Segera (not our town but one down the road) bit them. It doesn't seem thhat they have the treatment for it at our hospital...! We are keeping our distance from all of the animals.
I haven't described the hospital so here it goes... (I can't put up photos because computers are painfully slow) (now I'm home I can add them...YAY)
It has probably about 8 wards, theatre, xray. lab and outpatients. Each ward is in a separate building. They have about 40 beds in each and about half of the patients in each ward usually are sharing beds (bear in mind at this point that there is about a foot between each bed!) The Patients relatives visit during the day (not sure where they go at night) and clean/feed the patient... usually there are about 80-100 people on the ward at one time. Its kind of crazy really. The ward may or may not have a Dr visit during the day and the nurses may or may not give the drugs... but in general people are doing the best they can in a limited situation!
Right... time is running out on the internet so I'll be off...
Byesey bye for now
Salx
I haven't described the hospital so here it goes... (I can't put up photos because computers are painfully slow) (now I'm home I can add them...YAY)
It has probably about 8 wards, theatre, xray. lab and outpatients. Each ward is in a separate building. They have about 40 beds in each and about half of the patients in each ward usually are sharing beds (bear in mind at this point that there is about a foot between each bed!) The Patients relatives visit during the day (not sure where they go at night) and clean/feed the patient... usually there are about 80-100 people on the ward at one time. Its kind of crazy really. The ward may or may not have a Dr visit during the day and the nurses may or may not give the drugs... but in general people are doing the best they can in a limited situation!
Right... time is running out on the internet so I'll be off...
Byesey bye for now
Salx
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Hi Sis.
Guess what? My shower is fixed! Can you believe it?
My car is dying a thousand deaths so I'm having to use yours. Thanks for letting me borrow it. When I get in it at the end of the day at work, everyone else looks at me in pity though.....
I think the cat may have rabies, it has a mad look in its eye and it keeps trying to bite me. Plus the last couple of mice it bit seemed to die quickly afterwards.....
Oooh noooo! Have we got to deal with a rabid cat when we house sit? I'll bring my gardening gloves for feeding time!
"Matokeo ya Utafutaji kwa?"
'how do I cook this?'
Have you seen any shooting stars? Still a few days when you might see the persied meteor shower.
Find Casseiopeia (the big W) and look to the left or below it for where they will come from.
We saw some here, one at a time, hardly a shower sadly. They were on the north side of Casseiopea although we had been told to look in the east. Ours were like bright lines, horizontal and not very long.
Good luck, you shouldn't have too much light pollution in rural Tanzania but North and South might be wrong...
We'll try again in France,
love mum xxx
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Hi everyone...James... hopefully you are enjoying your new car (and that nobody looks at you with pity because they think you are having an early midlife crisis) and that my car is safe and sound!! I hope that Jazzy isn't rabid (she is probably not!)
I haven't seen any shooting stars here but I didn't know there were any to be looking out for!! The stars in Muheza though are crystal clear... no light pollution here!!
Salx
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