Improving

Happy patient

Monak who has been coming for treatment for his hand is doing much better. We kept him in the hospital from Tues till Sat last week. Now he is to be coming back everyday for treatment--antibiotic and bandaging. It's amazing how quickly a small wound can turn into a nasty infection and how with some effort it can start to heal nicely!

His hand is SO much better!

Removing stitches on one of my patients from last week

More than just the sick and wounded

We see a lot more around here than the sick and wounded!

I thought I should at least give you a glimpse. . .

Below is a young man who came in a few days ago with an incredible infection in his hand. It started out as only a little cut after working in the garden.

We've had him staying at the hospital now a couple of days so we can give him regular IVs with antibiotic and keep working the infection out. He's doing better. I trust he'll have a full recovery without losing any use of his hand.

At the Clinic...

During the past several days as things have been very busy at the CTC,
we have certainly not been shut-down at the normal clinic! In fact we have
continued to see an ordinary amount of people there, and over the past few
nights we've had 2-3 patients staying in the hospital rooms, with various
complaints. This man apparently has a fairly serious ulcer, or at least that
was as close as our nurses to get to it. We basically stabilized him over
several days time; he will still need to go see a specialist, but at least we
were able to IV and rehydrate him- he was severely dehydrated on arrival.

This lady appeared to have a combination of other illness with hyper-tension
issues, which gave her severe pain and a fear that something more serious
could be going on. It seemed that once we were able to keep her tension
medication in her, she is improving; but she'll be monitored for a few days
yet more than likely.
It looks as though the man above, will be able to go
out with Pastor Levy this afternoon...