The hospital opens in February 2015, the aim is to start with 50 clinicians, we have only recruited 15 Laotian staff so far, 11 nurses and 4 doctors. The other slight problem, our Lao staff's English is not at a level where we can teach medicine and my Laos extends to hello, days of the week and counting to 20.
So we're having intensive English lessons, 4 hours a day, I'm teaching the more advanced class and we quickly recruited an English teacher to teach the beginners.
I've realised you have to be adaptable when working with a NGO, teaching medicine is on hold temporarily but for now I'm very happy to be teaching, yipeee.
Relationships are building quickly, we're all having a blast, there's heaps of humour - we were using adjectives to describe patients at the hospital, one student said 'the dangerous patients', 'what' i squealed, 'will we have bodyguards!'
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