Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Health

So one of the girls at the Centre was taken to the hospital with labor pains on Sunday.  It seemed that her water broke.  Buttt she's still there and hasn't given birth.  In the US we'd induce labor in about 12 hours but that's risky here since if inducing doesn't work they need to do a c-section.  So, it's been 48 hours - no baby.

Just be praying for her, the chances of infection for her and her baby are much higher now.

Oh and there are two hospitals in Kitgum, the government hospital has run out of sterilization equipment, AKA if anyone needs any kind of invasive treatment they can't get it.  They also have no doctors on most of the wings.  Their sonogram machine is broken.  And if someone breaks something they can't get a cast because the plaster thing doesn't work anymore either.

Never complain about our healthcare, regardless of our problems we have state of the art equipment and facilities.

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