I have now completed my first week in the hospital here at the MRC. It's really nice and everyone is really friendly. There is a main consultant whose specialty is paediatrics but he looks after the whole hospital. When I say hospital it's a bit of an overstatement, there are 3 wards, a paediatric ward with 17 beds, a female ward and a male ward with about 10-12 beds depending on the number of admissions. The wards are simple, each bed is a single bed and a bedside locker. There is no wall oxygen or anything like that and no electric monitoring. There is one electric BP machine for the whole of the hospital, a definite contrast. The only thing that I think the hospital does better than the UK is the space that it leaves
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