Bimbo Sub-Prefecture

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Mane on Tour Durch Afrika
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- Apr 12, 1990, 10:40 AM
- 🌧 27 °C
- Altitude: 357 m
- DR Congo Sud-Ubangi Zongo Zongo Airfield 4.338937, 18.5974774°20’20” N 18°35’51” E
Day 41
Zongo
April 12, 1990 in DR Congo ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
Tag begann schon mal scheiße. Am Zoll wurde meine Kamera geklaut. Aber irgendwie wurde sie mir wieder angeboten gegen ein Finderlohn. Wie immer wurde gefeilscht. Als wir uns einig waren, es waren 10$, kam der Zöllner nahm die Kamera und wollte die zuerst verlangten 20$ Finderlohn. Schöner doof, den brauch ich noch für die Ausreise und so ließ ich es mit neuen Verhandlungen. Dann ging's schnell und ich war auf der Fähre über den Ubangui hinüber nach Zaire, wie es damals noch hieß. Der Grenzübertritt war hie angenehm und es gibt dazu sogar ein FotoRead more
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Mane on Tour Durch Afrika
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- Apr 11, 1990, 12:30 PM
- 🌧 32 °C
- Altitude: 338 m
- Central African Republic Bangui 4.364222, 18.561614°21’51” N 18°33’42” E
Day 40
Bangui
April 11, 1990 in Central African Republic ⋅ 🌧 32 °C
Bevor die nächste Herausforderung anstand wurde hier wieder alles auf Vordermann gebracht. Natürlich schlenderte ich durch die Stadt, aber wie immer dabei ohne Kamera.
In der Nacht hatten wir dann noch ein Unwetter mit Hagel. Folge war ein umgefallener Baum, denn wir dann alle gemeinsam irgendwie von einen umgebauten Track bugsierten.Read more
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Traveler Nursing in Bangui - CAR
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- Oct 4, 2016, 4:45 PM
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 359 m
- Central African Republic Bangui Dédengué 4.39467, 18.558194°23’41” N 18°33’29” E
Day 8
Bangui
October 4, 2016 in Central African Republic ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Today was a reminder of where I am. It started as every other day = wake up at 6am, start at 7:40. Give medication and supplies to nursing staff, follow ward round, understand nothing of what is happening, panic that the job is too hard with the language difficulty, lunch. Teach the nurses to give parcetamol when the child has a fever, give nurses coartem for malaria, then the international pharmacist arrived.

He waved and said we have to leave, so I went to the staff room to get my bag then all the international staff and a Muslim patient were transported to the clinic (I work at the paediactric complex, the clinic is a 2 min walk from the house). Apparently someone shot a national guard, then, I think, 2 Muslim were shot. I quick backstory: the fighting was between the Seleka – Muslims and the Anti-Balaka the Christian group, it stopped 1 year ago. The body of one of the people who was shot arrived at the hospital (paediatric complex). Apparently the security situation can change quickly here, so we were taken home just in case the fighting came to the hospital.

Now we are all just chilling at home, drinking beer and trying to connect to the rubbish internet. Tomorrow they will tell us if we can return to work.Read more
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Traveler Nursing in Bangui - CAR
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- Dec 1, 2016, 7:32 AM
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 369 m
- Central African Republic Bangui Dédengué 4.39217, 18.56064°23’32” N 18°33’38” E
Day 66
The health education book
December 1, 2016 in Central African Republic ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
This is my book, it's the basic story, the real one is in French and has questions for the nurse to ask the mothers. The book is about traditional medicine. Here they crush herbs and plants into a paste. They administer it orally, rectal, bathing the child with it or putting it in the skin. Sometimes they inject it which often results in an abscess. Usually the side affects are intoxication, enlarged liver and spleen and sepsis.

Pg 1: this is Marie and her son God bless, he is two years old. God bless is sick so Marie's neighbours advise her to visit the traditional doctor.

Pg 2: Marie takes their advice, the traditional doctor gives him something to drink and cuts his arms and puts a paste on them. It really hurts him.

Pg 3: the next day God bless has a lot of pain in his abdomen, it's very swollen and his arms are also red and sore. Marie is really worried so she takes him to the hospital

Pg 4: at the hospital the doctor does some tests and finds that God bless has malaria. He need to stay in hospital for a few days to treat his swollen abdomen caused by the traditional medicine

Pg 5: Marie's younger child is now sick. Her neighbours give her the same advice: to visit the traditional doctor. Marie does not listen

Pg 6: Marie takes her baby straight to the hospital. She sees the doctor who does some tests. Because Marie came to the hospital quickly Marie can do the treatment at home. It was also free.Read more
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Traveler Nursing in Bangui - CAR
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- Oct 10, 2016, 7:30 PM
- 🌙 25 °C
- Altitude: 368 m
- Central African Republic Bangui Dédengué 4.39113, 18.559984°23’28” N 18°33’36” E
Day 14
week 2
October 10, 2016 in Central African Republic ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
I'm finally getting the hang of it. But it's still challenging. We had a meeting today to reorganize the wards, and I need to change the way we give coartem (malaria med) and reorganize the doctors round, make sure the ward is clean. But I'm not supposed to do anything but tell the nurses what to do, which is hard when I see them already super busy.

Today was exceptionally busy because the doctors round takes forever but I need 5 free beds. And one patient was imposible to canulate, so I had to ask everyone to try and in the end the orthopaedic surgeon put one in the bone. The kid really needed a blood transfusion. After my meeting I returned to a messy ward . Meds all over the table, beds not clean. And busy nurses. I also need to teach them when I have time. This morning I was able to show someone how to do a v loos pressure so that was good. And other I explained why we threw away the blood that had been out for hours and opened to infection. So small steps.

I left a list of things to do to the night a
Shift, it is a nice team on so I have hope that tomorrow i will arrive to a clean ward with clean patients.Read more
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Traveler Nursing in Bangui - CAR
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- Oct 6, 2016, 8:20 AM
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 368 m
- Central African Republic Bangui Dédengué 4.39113, 18.559974°23’28” N 18°33’36” E
Day 10
sickness and embarrassment
October 6, 2016 in Central African Republic ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Yesterday I woke up and ran to the toilet, diarrhoea had arrived. It was inevitable, but earlier than I anticipated. At breakfast I was feeling really nauseous so decided to spent the morning at home. By lunch time I had a fever, headache, fatigue. So I went to the Emergency clinic with the international nurse Stephan. I have a urine sample and the guy who took my blood sample tied the glove so tight on my arm that I could not feel my arm anymore, I started to cry as it was so painful, especially with my headache and general shittyness. Then Stephan came to take me to the consultant room , and saw I was crying. 27 year old nurse crying over a simple needle, good one.

Urine and blood tests were negative, I still needed to give a stool sample. They started me on an antibiotic and paracetamol. I slept most of the afternoon, and woke up around 6:30 when i decided to have some dinner. I quickly went to the toilet again, managed to perfectly capture my stool sample. Then another wave of nausea hit, this time it felt like it was actually going to turn into vomit. I grabbed the bin, but then I realised I'm not going to vomit, I'm going to faint. I was not going to pass out in a locked bathroom, so I semi-conciously got of the toilet and tried to go outside to get some help. I stacked it on the stairs, apparently i managed to let out a 'help me'. The logistician saw me and asked if I wanted help, I said yes and then fainted.

I woke up in my bed, with my room full of people. It's a good thing living with doctors, nurses and anaesthetists! They put in a cannula, damn they hurt! It's still in and still hurts! I received 500ml of Hartmanns, for dehydration. They were all really lovely. I told them I managed to get a stool sample, that it was in the bathroom, but apparently it ended up in the garden. A quick test later and I have no parasites, but heaps of bacteria.

I also stacked it pretty bad so my knee really hurts :( I'm having another day of today. Generally feel better, still have diarrhoea and nausea so I'm trying to eat and drink more.Read more
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D Brown Central African Republic
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- Jan 28, 2020, 9:30 AM
- ⛅ 86 °F
- Altitude: 1,158 ft
- Central African Republic Bangui Akiba 4.33207, 18.516634°19’55” N 18°30’60” E
Day 2
The Streets Of C.A.R
January 28, 2020 in Central African Republic ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
Motorcycles are very popular here and surprisenly they are not loaded down with goods and passengers like in many other places.
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D Brown Central African Republic
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- Jan 28, 2020, 11:58 AM
- ⛅ 52 °F
- Altitude: 1,214 ft
- Central African Republic Ombella-M'Poko Boali Sub-Prefecture Bogoula Kassagon 4.66445, 18.20814°39’52” N 18°12’29” E
Day 2
Boali Falls
January 28, 2020 in Central African Republic ⋅ ⛅ 52 °F
The sight and sounds.
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D Brown Central African Republic
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- Jan 28, 2020, 1:07 PM
- ☀️ 99 °F
- Altitude: 1,371 ft
- Central African Republic Ombella-M'Poko Bimbo Sub-Prefecture Bosélé 4.58333, 18.378334°34’60” N 18°22’42” E
Day 2
Oops...
January 28, 2020 in Central African Republic ⋅ ☀️ 99 °F
A UN trailer in trouble.
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D Brown Central African Republic
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- Jan 28, 2020, 10:12 AM
- ⛅ 91 °F
- Altitude: 1,227 ft
- Central African Republic Ombella-M'Poko Bimbo Sub-Prefecture Joundélé 4.54833, 18.464°32’54” N 18°27’36” E
Day 2
A War Memorial
January 28, 2020 in Central African Republic ⋅ ⛅ 91 °F
Out in the middle of nowhere?
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