GHANA - DAY 23

First shift at the Princess Town Health centre - RCH, palm wine distillery and carrying water on our heads!.

This week is fully mapped out. We have something planned each day until we go, so there is always something to talk about 😊

We didn't have a great sleep last night, but after breakfast and a freshen up we were taken to the health centre where we'll be based for the next 4 days. We spent time with Doctor Eric who was really good at talking to us about the common conditions they see here, and how they manage them. It was really interesting to see how they test foraleria, it looks a lot like a COVID test!!

We went out with the Reproductive and child health clinic. They essentially take a bag out with them and do blood pressure of people they come across....
They're doing an vaccination drive at the moment so we were giving vitamin A to al children we dcpme across under 5 too. It was so nice walking around with them and meeting people in the community. We were invited to educate people when we were with them as well. For example making them aware of the implications of hypertension, poor diet and even por hygiene.

I even did some breast feeding support!! One of the mums had managed to exclusively breast feeding her son for 6 months on only one boob as he refused to feed from the other one from the start!! Kudos!!!

When this was done we headed back to the family home to have lunch and get ready for our afternoon activity. We visited a palm wine distillery. Which was rudimental, but really interesting. They essentially produce the alcohol content (it's about 400% apparently!!) For company's to used when. Producing their alcoholic beverages. 😊

Lastly, before tea we took our buckets to one of the town''s 9 wells to get our own 'bucket shower' water to wash in later... And we had to carry it back on our heads!!

I might have accidentally bought some more fabric 😳🤣

Tea was lovely and because we can't face sleeping in our disgustingly hot rooms, we've decided to sleep on the roof, where it is much cooler 😊. I'll let you how it goes!

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