GHANA - DAY 22

'Village Week - stock check of donation items, travel to Princess Town, town orientation.

After my chilled day on the beach yesterday, today was about getting organised and heading to Princess Town, for the final part of my Ghana elective placement.

This week staying in Princess Town, which is located in the Ahanta West District and the majority of the working population are subsistence farmers and fishermen although some commercial activities do exist. Crops such as maize, cocoa and coconut are farmed. Other commercial activities include gari making (local food), oil preparation, alcohol distillation and several craftworks.

The village has access to electricity but not pipe-borne water so bore holes are used to draw water and has a population of about 2,500.

I'm going to be 'working' in the Princess Health Centre which is a government-managed facility and serves the 8 small communities around Princess Town, as well as Princess Town itself. It should be interesting to see what might come through the doors!

I started the day early, heading down to stock check the donations that had been delivered. The rep was already there, building a screen... There parts missing. We spent almost 3 hours going through it all, and deciding what to do next... But now the final order is finally in, it's paid for and she said it'll be all sorted and ready for Thursday when I get back so we can take the donations to A&E Friday before heading home on Saturday.

As soon as this was done, we headed to Princess Town. As ever an experience on the road, and now the bridge is broken near the town, we could only be taken as far as there and picked up from the other side (having crossed a walking bridge).

We had a super warm welcome by the family that are hosting us this week when we got here and we're then shown around the town by our guide and he explained the format of the next few days. It's quite a large town, and we walked for a while whilst he showed us where everything was. The beach was particularly beautiful and we'll get a canoe ride down one of the rivers on Tuesday afternoon after placement!

We returned to the family home where our tea had been prepared and after an interesting experience of 'bucket shower' and 'drop toilet' complete with a MILLION cockroaches I've headed to bed to try and get some rest ready for my first shift at the clinic tomorrow morning.

I do hope I figure out the drop toilet... 😕

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