Then I checked on the culture plates from the suspected food poisoning
fruit juice in the Microbiology Lab (negative!)
Then I just did what I do on a typical day at HCMC or UMMC-F.....gave a lecture, looked at slides, signed out cases with the residents, said good bye.
Dr. Peter, the Chief Resident in Pathology asked me to give you this message: If you ever think to visit Uganda for safari or adventure travel, please consider coming for even one extra week to teach. The medical students and hospital residents here are taught by other doctors who have trained in Uganda and the people of Uganda have had so little time to make progress in science education since the days of struggle after colonial rule that they have missed so much of what others have been able to gain in the relative peace and prosperity of the US, Canada and Europe.
What did Isaac do on his last day? He rode in a "taxi" (what we call a public bus) into downtown Kampala to find and buy electrical fuses.
He describes a bizaare adventure that included several people suggesting that he give them some money and he could just wait for them to go find and buy fuses to bring back to him (but he ain't that gullible). At any rate, when he finally found a store that actually sold fuses he thought that they were a rip off but he bought them anyways for about US fifty cents each.
He then meandered his way back to Mulago Hospital and found Dr. Lund to so that he could be escorted into the Pediatric ICU.
Then he replaced the fuses in the BiPAP units.
And he had Dr Lund verify that they were in working order.
If you are at Mulago and need a spare fuse there are some taped to the top of the BiPAP's.
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Location:Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
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