Busy week, lots of visitors

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Julie left on Wednesday morning ( we miss her!) and Wednesday evening we had a team of 5 from Mashoko Hospital and then another hospital board member arrive for dinner.  We had a start of a 3 day meeting with our AS HE IS board that oversees our 3 hospitals and 3 clinics in Zimbabwe.  It was our time to host the meeting.  Thursday, Makonde hospital joined us for breakfast and then a tour of the hospital and our meeting and lunch.  So we had 17 for breakfast and lunch Thursday.  Then they went to Major and my village  in the afternoon and then back for dinner.  Friday morning we had breakfast and they left after devotions at the hospital.  We got the food on the table in time, and still got our patients seen at the hospital, which was so busy!  Everyone had a great time.

This week the company we bought kitchen cabinets from came to install them.  This is for our newly rebuilt kitchen from the fire we had in 2013.  We are going to buy appliances and some wiring we need to finish off the project shortly.

Caleb and Amanda are keeping busy at the hospital doing dressings and drawing CD4 blood and helping the doctors.  They seem to be enjoying their time.

Yesterday (Saturday) we had a support group meeting for our 8-12 year old AIDS kids.  They came for their medicine and we had some activities arranged for them. These are all children who have been born with AIDS and 40% their mother has died and they are being taken care of by a granny. We played games, watched some video, talked about them taking their medicine each day, and had some tea and egg sandwiches.  We had 33 kids and they went home with pencils and drink mix.  They all are excited to come back again!  We all had great fun.  Caleb and Amanda helped me with the games and passing out prizes.

Dr. Bungu from Mashoko


Board members from Mashoko and Chiredzi being introduced by Mr. Mereki


New cabinets and countertops installed in our rebuilt kitchen



Window faces out to serving window to dining room





Caleb and Amanda doing a dressing change



Caleb and Amanda weighing kids for ART drugs



Games being played with AIDS kids during their special day

Counsellors talking with kids


 Tea Time for AIDS kids


Comments

  1. Calvin02June 21, 2016 at 1:47 AM

    Keep it up!

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  2. UnknownAugust 8, 2016 at 2:07 AM

    - Chứng bệnh tăng huyết áp hiện nay rất phổ biến tại Việt Nam, bệnh huyết áp chủ yếu xảy ra ở người lớn tuôi.
    - Hiện giờ số lượng người mắc bệnh tim tương đối lớn, con số đáng báo động kịp thời.
    - Điều trị bệnh máu nhiễm mỡ tại bệnh viện Thu Cúc uy tín và chất lượng tốt nhất.
    - cách chăm sóc người bị huyết áp thấp cũng đóng vai trò quan trọng giúp cải thiện nhanh chóng tình trạng sức khỏe.
    - Chứng bệnh rối loạn thần kinh thực vật có ảnh hưởng đến chức năng tự động cơ thể bao gồm nhịp tim, huyết áp, mồ hôi và tiêu hóa…
    - Bệnh lý huyết áp thường không bỏ qua ai, vì vậy việc theo dõi huyết áp bình thường là cần thiết để bảo vệ sức khỏe.
    - Chỉ số nhịp tim bình thường là bao nhiêu, các bạn nên tham khảo kỹ để biết cách chăm lo sức khỏe.
    - Tìm hiểu thông tin kiến thức về bệnh viện tim hà nội
    - Triệu chứng thiếu máu não là những căn bệnh rất nguy hiểm hiện nay.

    - Tìm hiểu cao huyết áp nên ăn gì để có những kiến thức cần thiaats cho các bạn.
    - Chỉ số huyết áp bình thường là bao nhiêu rất quan trọng cho mỗi chúng ta để biết tình hình sức khỏe của mình.
    - Tìm hiểu triệu chứng cao huyết áp để có biện pháp chữa trị hiệu quả nhất.
    - Cách giảm mỡ máu hiệu quả tốt nhất hiện nay là gì, mời các bạn tham khảo.
    - Căn bệnh mỡ máu cao ăn gì là tốt nhất và đảm bảo cho sức khỏe nhất hiện nay.
    - Cùng tìm hiểu nguyên nhân tăng huyết áp là gì và cách điều trị thế nào tốt.
    - biến chứng tăng huyết áp rất nguy hiểm cho người bệnh, các bạn không nên coi thường.

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