Medical Pics from Africa- Part 5

This is Watidashi- a precious baby boy that Logan, Faith Anna, and I had the privilege of seeing born!  Dr. Sheets let us know that a woman was in the Labor and Delivery ward about to deliver if anyone wanted to see a birth.  So the kids, Whitney, and I walked over....and about 4 minutes later this little man popped out!  It was the mom's 2nd birth, so she went pretty quickly.  Pretty neat for a 6 and 8 year old to get to witness such a miracle!

Watidashi in Shona means, " God has loved us".

Logan did pretty good.  Right after the birth though, he told me he needed to step out for a minute.  So we got some fresh air and he told me he wasn't expecting to see the blood.  We talked all about how normal it was....and how God set it all up this way.  After a few minutes, he was ready to go back and hold the baby!

Faith Anna did great!  Never even batted an eye.  Just took it all in...

Proud mama.

This is where I'm gonna let Luke do the narrating....

This is the medicine cart in the Male Ward.  Unbelievable how limited supplies are.

This is what the hospital looks like.  Patients travel from many, many miles to receive medical treatment here.

This is a premie baby in a separate room they call the NICU.  I think she was born at about 28 weeks.  Amazing that she lived and is doing fairly well considering the limited supplies and resources the hospital has.

This is called a fetoscope to listen to baby's heartbeat in utero.  One end is placed on the physician's ear and the other on the mom's belly.  A little different from all of our electronic gadgets and ultrasounds that we have back home!

This patient came in with swollen neck.  We thought it would most likely be a goiter....

Her chest x-ray showed diffuse metatstatic disease indicating thyroid cancer.  Very sad case.  Not much we could do for her....her days are numbered.

This is where they scrub in for surgery.  Looks pretty sterile, huh? :)

Due to the British influence, the Operating Room there is called the Theatre.

Hand-written signs delineating the different wards.

Axe injury that became infected.

Different patient following skin grafts.

Traumatic cataract due to a thorn.

Cutting off a cast.

We biopsied one of these lesions...almost certainly Kaposi's Sarcoma in an HIV positive patient.

They clean and re-use their Foley bags and surgical gloves.  A little different than our practices in the U.S.!

Supply cabinet in the Theatre.

Does any of this make you thankful for our modern hospitals and all the luxaries we are provided with our healthcare??  Does us too.  More coming soon...