We said goodbye to Dr Nortey who is now on leave for three weeks, but expect Freda back on Monday. Aunty Dorothy is off to Kumansi to assist with nursing exams next week and as it is the end of the month, we will say good bye to the interns and house offices (physios and Drs) that will hopefully all be replaced on Wednesday. We have a hello too with a new dietician – welcome Andy.
Had a wonderful day at Bojo Beach with a few members of the team; an absolutely stunning beach that is accessed by a canoe with an outboard motor – we crossed a lagoon about 50m in width before spending the day chatting, relaxing, enjoying the sun and sea. It was a great way for Eunice to spend her 30th birthday. Church with Cynthia was a different experience to that last week. It was a smaller more local church with only one service, but the music, singing and charismatic preaching were still in abundance – certainly no lack of enthusiasm! Back in for week seven.
Another busy and heavy week on the stroke unit at Korle Bu. We now have 12 functioning chair raisers – so most patients should be able to sit at a comfortable height. This is a minor aside to the major work of the week which the nursing staff completed tirelessly – nursing for some really unwell patients. Unfortunately we lost three patients this week – most of them unacceptably young – but all had had what can only be called massive strokes. I have not seen too many CTs showing that a patient had lost their entire right hemisphere to an infarct.
On a happier note it was good to see Dr Freda back and we welcomed new medical officers David and Sani.
After being let down by a travel company our planned expedition to Mole did not happen so we made do with a trip to Shai Hills Reserve instead, and managed to see Kobs, Baboons, several bird species and some amazing butterflies – a good day out.
