Village life is amazing...and very busy too. Hmm where do i begin? Well we arrived last monday, so have only been here for 2 weeks, but it feels like a month! Our hut is 200m from the health clinic, which is on the grounds of the FDNC vocational school, which has about 100 students enrolled in tailoring, computing, carpentry, sustainable agriculture, nutrition and even some disability students. So as well as outpatients, i also see teachers and students (lots of headaches and period pains!!) But the outpatients are the most interesting and also challenging. The language barrier is greater than i imagined, but Juliet (the nurse i am working very closely with) does all the interpreting for us. She is a life-saver! My first patient was a suprise for me to see in Africa...an elderly
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