The Pace Quickens, and a Rush of
Clinically Interesting Patients Overflows our Limited Schedule in “OPD” and
“OR”
February 10, 2004
I will try to access my email server for the second time during our busy stay in Hargeisa as the predicted rush of clinical experience and operating activity crescendos beyond our capacity to handle it with the limited stock of surgical supplies, drugs and time available for them.
The 1) “Diplomatic” and Medical Education “programme,” 2) Outpatient Medical Consultations and Teaching Clinics in Multiple Sites and In- and Out- Patient Settings, and 3) Surgical Treatment Mission---each is rapidly developing with the collaboration of multiple ministries and media.
The more recent series of reports from the Somaliland field include the chapters describing this week’s work in the expansive accelerating completion in Hargeisa, celebrated this evening in our hosts’ grateful reception and dinner of the community’s “Hospital and Health Committee” for Hargeisa, in promoting a very upbeat turn in its international development opportunities.
The next few days include clinics in three very different venues, with greater intensity in our base of operations at the Hargeisa Group Hospital. It will include other conferences and receptions after the clinical hours, and culminate with a two day mission to the Red Sea Port of Berbera and its Berbera Hospital for clinical cases aligned by the Medical Director and staff there, who had com e to Hargeisa University and its fledgling Faculty of Medicine as “advance men” in planning and coordinating our visit there, as well as participating in the first “international visiting professor lecture” I had delivered to the new medical student body.
You may get a further flavor of the events in Hargeisa as the steady effort with the collaboration of the whole indigenous professional and international aid community has participated in proud “ownership” of what they are increasingly optimistic about, hoping to build it further to be a continuing beneficial relationship.
You will see much more attached!
Cheers! From Hargeisa, Somaliland—now, on a Roll!
GWG and Team