Gloria finally arrived home about 1 AM from her meetings in Baragoi, a town 3 hours away by vehicle. Naturally, we didn’t see her until the morning. It seems that government bureaucracies are no different wherever you go. The Kenyan Ministry of Health has started a push to vaccinate people all over the country against Trachoma, a disease of the eye. I’ll talk more about that later. In their infinite bureaucratic wisdom they decided that all of the healthcare workers throughout the country needed to gather together in the town of Baragoi for two days to learn all about the vaccination procedures pick up their supplies of the medications and, most importantly, get “the stick” to measure youngsters to determine the dosage based on height. Well, you guessed it, a) the agency that is in overall
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