Hello again! This past week was full of more "hands-on" service to
MSD and Dr. Imani...
I spent a good part of the week working on the price list
for the medical supplies and equipment that we are thinking of sourcing from
Europe to get to MSD and CH Mulamba.
On Saturday Dominique and I headed to Panzi to help MSD pack
up their clinic to move to Kavumu.
It started with a visit to Dr. Imani’s house to see the new
sign that he’s had painted for the Kavumu clinic. We then attended the small
meeting where Dr. Imani reiterated to his nurses that yes, they were in fact
going to have to close down the Bukavu clinic in order to open the new clinic
in Kavumu. The staff members were very stressed about the change because they
live in Kavumu and it costs 3 thousand francs (about $3.20) per direction to
get transportation from where they live in this area to the clinic location in
Kavumu – they also have their families in Bukavu to think about; the whole
thing made for a stressful bittersweet meeting.
After the meeting we got to work with packing up all the
materials and getting ready for the move.
Once we got everything packed up, it was time to move it up
to the road. The way to the clinic is too narrow to drive to so we had to
transport all the materials from the clinic up the hill to the road by
head/hand…
After it was all (miraculously) on the truck, they headed
off to Kavumu to set up shop. We’re looking forward to visiting them there
soon!
Oh, and here's the (unfortunately low-quality) video that Dominique took of me explaining the process...:
Glad you have many strong men and women. Oh, I forget, you are strong too..... :).....Keep posting your pictures......Yu Chen
ReplyDeleteThank you Yu Chen, that means a lot to me. I will definitely keep posting :) I hope you are doing well! Praying for you and the summer work at AGH!
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