.. the staff welcomed us and told us about their work, the 3 main problems they deal with are malnutrition, pneumonia and gastroenteritis. There was only one patient admitted to the ward today, she was 14 months old and was malnourished, her family will receive health education, unfortunately there is insufficient funding to provide nutritional supplements which is what she really needs. When she returns home her family probably won't have enough money to buy nutritious food, this is something we hope to change when we open the hospital and start outreach clinics here.
We heard better news about the immunisation programme which is working well with good uptake, and 4 healthy babies were born yesterday, they had all gone home this morning so we missed new babies to hug, very disappointed. Antenatal care is available and more women are choosing to have their babies at the hospital, hopefully next time i will be able to cuddle a baby.
Dr Vannaly was checking the weighing scales while I checked the information posters!
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