GHANA - DAY 24

Second shift at the Princess Town Health centre - a district performance meeting, a baby girl and the fort with rocks and waves!!

Today was the 2023 Annual Sub Municipal Review for the clinic and others associated. It's designed to discuss progress and improvement in 2023. It was a 2.5 hour meeting and representatives from the other clinics came to share their figures and discuss challenges too. It was eye opening to hear of the issues from everyone. I got the impression that the princess clinic is the largest, and despite this, they have the same challenges. They included the state of the roads, the bridge being broken, teenage pregnancy, no oxygen, power outages, low staff levels and lack of space. Dr Eric pointed out that the government will give them a grant in order to improve the services, have a lab and extend... But they weren't going to because there is a lack of space!

Currently there is a community project to build another hospital, next to the clinic and this is being done purely by the community. 🤞🏻 It helps them get what they need... Imagine a clinic that cannot administer oxygen!!!

The primary complaint here remains malaria, they are all frustrated as this a preventable disease and the fact that it is so rife is predominantly because people refuse to sleep under nets!!

After the meeting we put the clinic back together and I got my first paediatric cannula... I've been putting it off for months, so glad it got it finally 😊 then we had a catch-up with Dr Eric and went home. As we're eating lunch our guide came to say a baby was imminent at the clinic... So we headed back to the clinic to witness a baby girl born.

We visited a fort, and I wasn't sure what to expect, but it was really cool, and the best bit was the rocks with a view!! We spent a while there and then walked back through the market and tasted kokonte prepared by one of the locals. It was nice!

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