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
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
Charlie is scheduled to have surgery tomorrow to have a rod inserted into his leg. Lori came back to Cazale for one night to get some good sleep and to regroup. Sleeping on a piece of cardboard under a bed is not easy. Lori left this afternoon with a very
I have been checking the blog three or four times a day hoping that Casey would give me something. I am sad today there is nothing here, so very sad. 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Look how one week of medika mamba can change a kid. Amazing!
DAGENOR He is 4 years old and weighs 32 pounds. He has kwashiorkor. He could not sit up when admitted and was in bad shape. He is very, very anemic and sick. He is currently on the medika mamba program. His legs are very tight and painful from the kwashiorkor.
Madelene came to RHFH in Nov 10. She was 5 years old and weighed 26 pounds. Her lowest weight was 22 pounds. She was near death. Many people did not think she would live. (me included) But she did. I could not just post a before and after picture of her. I had to show
