Where isn't the US army?

I never wrote about the US soldiers that are here.  Basically, the US, Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya sent soldiers here to do some trainings on pandemics and things like that.  They ran clinics in some of the sub counties in the area (staying at each place for two days).  And then they came to Kitgum Hospital.  Ironically (or not ironically at all), I was there both days that they were there.

Basically when people hear that the US is coming with health supplies they come running.  I passed one of the community clinics and there were probably 1,000 people in line to get into this 4 or 5 room health clinic.  When they came to the hospital people were already there that had slept outside the night before.  I talked with one of the soldiers who said that they estimated well over 4,000 maybe pushing 5,000 people were in - I would say there were even more that were out of the sight of the soldiers.  They were only there for 2 days, from 9-3:30 each day.  And were only able to see a fraction of those people.  People who stood in line for hours and hours, some even days in the blazing hot sun with no water and no food.

While people in Kitgum were really excited that all these countries were genuinely interested in the well being of Northern Uganda, they realized quickly that while they did come to provide some support, they had no where near the agenda to treat everyone.  The activity was more of a training process for the army on how to work with local governments if there is a global emergency.

So yay for including some of the locals but I'm very frustrated that they gave the people a small taste of treatment but didn't even touch the health problem at hand.  The locals were so hopeful.  Even the soldiers said they weren't here long enough or with enough supplies to make any major impact.  Gr.  If you want to help, how about training the people working in the hospital who know next to nothing about sanitation?