Doctor Dennis works with HIV patients to inform on prevention, test, and counsel them through the process. We were unable to take many pictures of the hospital due to patient confidentiality. The hospital was definitely an interesting experience. In the HIV unit a group sang us a song about HIV prevention, it was very entertaining and useful. For patients that are HIV positive they explain the process of how to take their ARVs and if they are disciplined then they can still have a good quality of life.
When we entered the Child, Nutrition, and Maternity Ward sanitation and cleanliness is pretty much none existent. Each room is completely open to the next even if one room is for sick people and the other is for healthy people. While walking around we saw many kids with IVs in their neck and head, when we asked Denis, he said that they will try and put the IV in both arms first but many times they can not find the vein so they will put it in their head or neck.
We also got the opportunity to visit the labor room while women were delivering but all of the TCON team declined except Chelsea and Matt but when Matt saw the women's legs up he immediately left the room. Visiting the hospital was a good experience just to be able to see the difference from an American hospital.
After visiting the hospital we went to an orphanage in Soroti, where we got the chance to hold some babies and play with the kids, which all made us want to adopt!
Joseph Quote of the Day!
"Dave you need to go repent because you keep falsely accusing me of killing the cat."
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