This is Danielle. She is another nurse here from America helping out for the summer at the Crisis Nursery.
This is our very basic but well functioning lab. We do malaria smears and other much needed tests for the villagers.
The next three pics are of the clinic I just helped at yesterday. This one has had the nicest facilities so far. We usually are not able to spread out the medications like this. It made dispensing much faster!
Pretty good considering we are out in the middle of nowhere!
The counter we dispense from.
Me in front of the pharmacy stock. We actually have a really good selection of medications available. About 1/2 are donated from the states!
These are from the village clinic that I did with Ministry of Hope last week. The first picture is of the pharmacy area. We usually just empty the big bins and use them as tables for dispensing the medications. The second one is the line up of people waiting to have their vital signs taken and then see the clinical officer.
See how the bins also double as tables.
This day we saw 280 patients. They started lining up at 4am to be seen. We did not finish seeing patients until 3:30pm that day.
I am waiting for my friends who were with me to send me their pictures too. I will post those on facebook when they arrive so be on the lookout for those. I hope this gives you a good idea about how much room is available for improving healthcare here in Malawi. Most of these people would have to walk about 12 miles to get to the nearest healthcare facility. And then when they get there they frequently find that the facility does not have the medications they need. That's why these clinics are so needed and so well attended by the villagers. We take so much for granted in the US!
Becky
