Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Bob Stone squared!

We have been graced to have two doctors with us at MITS. Robert Stone and his wife Nancy are here with us. They were also accompanied on this trip with their son Bob Stone. Robert is Pharmaceutical expert, loves mathematics, science and history. Bob his son is a trained doctor and has done so many clinics all over the world. Nancy is a teacher who loves nothing but teaching children.
Its their first time in Africa and they visited Tanzania, doing a medical camp while there. They had a chance of visiting Eastleigh bases and were part of the Monday program accompanied by Joel. They did a medical clinic on the street boys and girls while there. They decided to continue with the same exercise today and it was all success. Though a lot of work, we got it done. But time is never a friend when helping the needy and depressed. We had to postpone some medical cases till Friday this week when the team goes into Eastleigh. The doctors will also accompany the team.
For one, we realized that the common sickness that were rising up, were; excessive intake of drugs, and not the right drugs for their sicknesses, dehydration, flu, high fever, coughs, chest problems from smoking cigarettes/ marijuana,/sniffing glue, injuries from major accidents or fights, deep knife wounds to broke bones.
One lady realized that she was not pregnant though she had been told that she was, and a wrong diagnosis was given to her baby for having malaria. Some opened up and admitted to being positive and we referred to the right centres to get medication. The doctors felt the need to give each person a de-worming tablet including their babies. We even got the chance to share Jesus with them and prayed with them.

A medical exercise will be done for all our kids in our program tomorrow on Wednesday. Diagnosis of medicine will be done with the help of Philip since he is our medic expert and knows the kids' illnesses and takes care of us all while bacteria/viruses decides to attack all of us (strange that, Philip never falls ill).
Did you know that coffee and chai are a cure to mild/early stages of asthma.

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