Dodowa – Day 6, part 2

From Lekpongunor we headed inland to Dodowa, to visit their district health center, which was a very nice facility.  We were greeted by Alice & Kate who showed us around their out-pateint care, pharmacy, in-patient care, laboratory, records room and consulting rooms.  Prashant was able to photograph the whole process of getting a blood sample from a child to test for malaria while in the lab – I meanwhile passed out gummy vitamins to everyone waiting for their lab results, including my friends below.

They have about 80 staff and are open 24 hours a day.  Some of their nursing staff and lab staff looked so young though!  They also have an amubulance, maternity ward and brand new dental clinic.

The rest of the day was spent driving home, working out, emailing and finalizing things before the Directors arrive tomorrow.  I had planned to get to bed in plenty of time to get a full eight hours before our 7:00am departure in the morning, but then Cocktail was on and I got totally sucked in.  It was right at the part where they do the hippy hippy shake – you can’t turn it off then!  It was a little scary how well I still knew that movie 20 years later