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Sun Tea 97:365
Image by The Real Estreya
No challenge groups today, I guess! But I got a lens flare so life is good. LOL
It was a sun-tea making sort of day today. Just lazy, lazy, lazy! My girls and I spent a lot of time indoors just doin’ summer vacation stuff. By early afternoon we moved outside to enjoy the sun and low 80s (F). I’m still working in the prairie hand-removing invasive grasses. They swept out the playhouse, made rainbows with the hose, and dozed on beach towels. By late afternoon, we took a break with sun tea, raspberries and cucumbers … all from our gardens!
For Today’s Random Fact from My So-Called Life: I wish I had a better way to connect to Flickr on my iPhone. Flickr’s mobile site doesn’t allow me to browse groups and I find that is my favorite way to connect with you guys.
Evaluating Sites in Mali
Image by ReSurge International
I am Dr. Bill Schneider, Interplast’s chief medical officer. Part of my job is to evaluate sites for future Interplast surgical team trips, visiting educator trip and surgical outreach center directors. I am currently in Bamako, Mali, the first stop of a three week fact-finding trip to Africa that will also include Ghana and Ethiopia. Currently Interplast has a surgical outreach center in Lusaka, Zambia, and I am excited about the prospect of expanding our development work elsewhere in Africa.
Today was spent visiting several hospitals here in Bamako, Mali to determine if this would be a good place to bring an Interplast surgical volunteer team. There are no plastic surgeons in Mali, a country of over 12 million people. It appears that there are only two surgeons who do cleft lip repairs, and no one who does palate repairs. The Gibreal Toure Hospital has the largest pediatric department in Mali and is the primary pediatric referral center. They are interested in lectures and teaching in all of our specialties.
Drs. Akpaloo, Ageneroku and Ada
Image by ReSurge International
I visited the Komfu Anokye (pronounced KOM-fu a-NO-che) Teaching
Hospital, or as they say here, KATH. There are three fully trained plastic surgeons. The senior surgeon is Dr. Pius Agbenorku. I was taken on teaching rounds with the residents and the students which included the burn unit and several wards. They treat a great deal of traumatic injuries largely secondary to motor vehicle accidents. They also run the burn unit and do hand surgery. They are very interested in our VE program and in fact are very eager for us to begin.
Pictured here are the three plastic surgeons, from the left are Dr. Joseph Akpaloo, Dr. Pius Agbenorku, and Dr. Emmanuel Ada holding the x-ray. The patient has a complicated foot wound with osteomyelitis and we discussed possible therapeutic options.
The hospital is very large. Dr. Agenenorku says it was built for 500
patients, but may now have up to 1,000 patients. There were indeed places where mattresses had been placed on the floor between beds to hold more patients. This child was on one of the wards we passed through. The most common admission on pediatrics is for malaria.