A Medical Elective: Ibulanku - East Uganda. Saturday 28th August 2010. Week 1 of a 6 wk medical elective in rural Eastern Uganda complete and life couldn’t be better. Amanda and I were picked up last Friday morning from our backpackers hostel in Kampala by Sula - the administrator of the health clinic we are working at and we drove the 4 hours out to Ibulanku - a sub-district of Iganga( a town in east Uganda) with a population of about 400,000 people. We stopped for lunch on the banks of the River Nile and sat under the shade of a big old African tree drinking Passion juice (juice made entirely out of passionfruit,) eating fresh Telipia (a local fish caught that morning from the waters of the Nile) and watching the beautiful local women dressed
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