Greetings from George

From George:
It is now Saturday morning and we will finish our OLA training today. There is such a collage of faces and events – the cheers and smiles when the satellite transmission worked, the stories of those who work with the poor and face the challenges of providing health care with limited resources and the enthusiasm for the physicians and midwives to learn as much as they can. In the back of your mind is the cases you have seen on the ward – how is the six year old girl with meningitis, does the five month old boy pneumonia and such bad thrush have AIDS, the woman who just came to the hospital with a dead baby after a prolapsed cord.

I am most grateful to everyone who makes our work possible. The challenge of improving maternal, newborn and HIV care in Africa is daunting. Yet I am struck that there are so many African physicians, midwives and nurses who are absolutely committed to the challenge. They give of themselves completely in very difficult circumstances and from them I take much inspiration.