Day 11 A Sunday
0800    Chapel, Martin preaching, good style and content.
0830    Back at guest house to be picked up by Mr Kellet, a nurse practitioner to be taken to his clinic. Fantastic 50 minute walk through banana and mango groves and the like and over a rickety bridge.
Clinic set on a hill, having been built 3 years before by the Belgians.

Quite a queue waiting so started seeing patients initially under the supervision of Mr. Kellet (just in case we decided not to prescribe anti-malarials!!)
Complete formulary was under 20 drugs with some of them being vitamin A, Folic acid, anti-worm medication and iron! Septrin was the only anti-biotic.

Lots of kids with stories of fever, coughs and funny pains but unlike the hospital you could tell that most of them weren't really poorly.
As we worked queue building up (apparently folks were going back to the villages to recommend the neighbours see the Mzungo doctors!)
After 4 hours we had just about beaten the queue and were starving! One old lady insisted on sneaking in for a blood pressure check, she hadn't had it done since....................yesterday ..........when it was normal!

1600      Made it back home and the water was back on again (I think I was starting to smell bad!)
2030      Devotions led by Judy. Jesus making his will. "My peace I leave with you".

Last Evening  2100
After tidy up, dotted down my thoughts about being an African doctor. Jolly hard work to be doing this properly as we did no nights or on call. It would get a bit easier. For a talking type job like a GP, language is all important and translation makes the whole thing untenable-learn the lingo or don't do it! Most of our normal diseases plus lots of worse extras. Patients are hideously poli-symptomatic, made much worse by my lack of language skills. The andhere syndrome.
Financial rewards for working out here would be trivial so why wouldn't the docs try and jump on the European gravy train for themselves and their families? Fantastic eye-opener, no major disasters, should be a few good pics
Last day     0530
Cold showers in the dark, mosquitos around( but for the last time!) Late breakfast with the very yellow eggs.
Hit the road. Fantastic views of the Rwenzoris.