Birth at the cholera house

Sometime a few weeks ago there was a lady named Marie-Ann.  She was taking care of two of her children at the cholera house.  She was 9 months pregnant.  Her husband was with her as well helping to care for the children.  There was a terrible rain storm one night. 

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Update on cholera

Tired of cholera yet?  Yes, me too!  But that is what is happening now.  So that is what I feel like sharing today.  There are currently 4 children from the RC at the cholera house.  All have confirmed cholera.  All are under a year old.  They are doing fair and

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Faith

I love those step out in faith and are not afraid to do some “water walking”.  update on Dr. Jen’s post UPDATE (Friday afternoon): Please see Licia’s post from today here. I am going out on a limb and will be purchasing another ~$2500 worth of medications to be sent

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Quick update

I wish I had a minute to write more but don’t today.  The cholera house had 90 patients in it this AM.  90, yes, this non-nurse Licia is a little freaked out today, but we are not telling Lori 🙂  as she is dealing with so much already.  I worked

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Kay Kolera

We do a bed count each evening at the cholera house.  This week we had the highest 87 patients sleeping at the house.  59 of those were on IV’s and 28 were drinking ORS.  Each of these patients has a caregiver that is sleeping in a chair by them.  Now there

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Food Boxes

 RHFH continues every two weeks to give food boxes out to over 150 family in the Cazale community.  Many of these families are our HIV and TB patients, widows and those that cannot work due to being ill or just to old.  We count it a privilege to be able to

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