Wednesday May 7, 2014

Wednesday May 7, 2014

Well today is done and over.  It went real quick.  We were up early once again to head to the center market of Kumasi to assist Aninwah with their public clinic.  We ended up at the wrong market and resting for about an hour—Ghana time is sporadic but I was grateful for the extra sleep. 

We showed up at the market, which happened to be the same place I visited last year.  The clinic wanted some of our students to perform breast exams while the rest taught, performed assessments and assisted giving out the medications.  I offered my services for the breast palpations but was declined…darn!

The clinic went really well. There were some arguments because of line cutting but it was good.  The students performing the breast exams were able to refer a good amount of patients for further testing.  The teachings went good and we passed out a lot of condoms!!  I was able to dance with some of the people and that is always really fun.   

We paused for lunch and headed up to Komfa Anokye trauma center.  It is the state of the art trauma center in Ghana, and possibly Western Africa.  They gave us a tour of the hospital and we were able to finish up by stopping in the children’s wards and giving away toys to the little kids! They were excited for us to go there and I am sure the nurses were stoked that we gave them all little flutes!

I thought it was really cool that the doctors trusted our group of students to perform breast exams on the people today.  That is something that I don’t think is done much here.  I really like, again, that those opportunities are given to us.  If you are an able body, go help.  They don’t care about your credentials, all they want is your assistance.  I think that is really amazing.