Dear friends and family,<\/p>\n
Yesterday after our clinic in Baluba we arrived back at our lodge to find the power back on again. Power shedding is a common thing here, so connecting with you is spotty.<\/p>\n
Baluba proved to be another challenging day in the field of mobile medicine. We set up in a building that is partially inhabited by the homeless and less than accommodating but comfortable to us. The team is working amazingly well with advanced diseases.<\/p>\n
We admitted 5 critical patients to the hospital. Jason took a small child who was critical to the Children’s Hospital in one of our trucks. Our bus took 4 patients to the general hospital 40 min from our site.<\/p>\n
After nearly 500 patients, we closed the clinic with head lamps and flashlights hanging from the rafters of the building.<\/p>\n
Chriss, Doug, Derrick, and I did 3 home visits to very ill patients. Our first had end stage TB and lay on a first floor next to their chicken who was in a tin tub. We left food and supplies for him. The second man was end stage HIV. Food was left along with a large tray of eggs. His wife was 8 months pregnant with their 8th child. The third visit was a child with a debilitating disease of unknown origin.<\/p>\n
We celebrated the birthday of Henry “H2” later at the lodge complete with a cake. Our remembrances were with Morgan Harrington as this would have been her birthday as well.<\/p>\n
Lives were saved and we were blessed.<\/p>\n
Blessings
\nThe OMNI team
\nKaren checking in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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