Life Ugandan-style (in pictures)

Today’s been a long day, so I’ll just give you some pictures to look at.

I began today by spending 4 hours looking after a very sick patient on the medical ward (for the medics out there: SaO2 60, resp rate 45, heart rate 120). He had heart failure, but with pulmonary oedema so severe that there was a dull bubbling rumble (not even crackles) across the entire chest. There is no oxygen supply, so the best we could do was an oxygen concentrator at 5L/min… but since this wasn’t enough, we then used the concentrator to make a CPAP machine. (PICTURE TO FOLLOW)

Other Ugandan-style things I’ve seen today:

Lawn-mowing:

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Scaffolding:

Rain:

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p.s. There was no surgery yesterday, because the hospital had run out of gauze for the operations.