Agbozume Clinics/Rural outreach
Started seeing patients in the Clinic at Agbozume, on Thursday, June 8. As expected, we were very busy immediately, seeing over 53 patients the first day. The students and Ms. Dawkins, the nurse from Chicago helped at the clinic, so it was not too bad. We saw a lot of malaria and returning patients with hypertension, most of whom have not been compliant. We also treated a severely malnourished one and half year old child. This child's mother died after birth and was left under the care of the teenage sister and father. Evidently, being poor and ignorant, the baby was neglected. Seven months ago, this baby was sent to the village medicine man and got some lacerations made on the belly, in an attempt to cure the abdominal distension. We fed and treated this baby aggressively. By the next day, there were signs of improvement [see the pictures - Please be patient, download may take a few minutes, thanks]. We donated baby food for this child and planed other follow up visits. We went to Nogokpo but most of the villagers had gone to the market. We only saw 23 patients. Interestingly, the villagers had to choose between seeing the doctor or selling their wares at the market for financial gain. In this case, the money won over good health.