it works!!!!

workshop welder

next to the workshop people repair cars

Monday evening, 17.30 hrs, just before dark we managed to make the cryo machine work!!!! The cylinder arrived sunday early morning, but did not fit the equipment After a long day traveling up and down by cab from the health centre to the welding place and still leaking I decided to bring the whole thing to the workshop

It is a very heavy cylinder, but we were going to use it in town anyway if it would work. So there we were in this place in a back alley with our brand new machine, but finally it worked! In Africa they can repair everything goes the saying. well it is true. So tomorrow we can start screening and treating finally . Today we practiced on chicken.

practicing with the chicken

John is sometimes very unpractical, he bought a life chicken, was going to look for someone to kill and clean it around the hospital. But the midwifes decided we better buy a thigh from the butcher. So the chicken was on a rope outside the place where we worked and he took it home in the end, invited me to come to eat it tomorrow in his house. This morning he came to pick me up at the hotel , you should see the taxi:  Everything we need for the procedure was in and on the car, the examination table included.  We were a sight when we arrived, even with a chicken, at the hospital where we were going to train. In the end all went well.

On these days I am sitting inside all the time, so I am happy I can make walks behind the hotel. I usually do that early morning, waking up at six. It is a nice landscape. . and all are very friendly. Most people speak English, as it is the official language in Ghana, so communication is good.  This morning I met a man who really spoke impeccable English. There is a small pond, with birds- even a bright coloured kingfisher, lotus flowers and of course the beautiful trees again. The baobab is having small fruits now. These walks remind me so much of Mota and even Nepal. People herding goats, watering the fields, going to school in uniform

beautiful light because of the hamatan, but very dusty 

 people on the market

The people in the hotel are also very kind , and many of them have a university degree (English, business, ICT) but cannot find proper jobs. So they work here as a cook at the reception, or even security. The stay is much more comfortable compared to last summer. And time flies, only a few more days…….

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