Back in Holland, and good internet now. It is always alienating to fly in one day from one part of the world to another, totally different. It takes time to land mentally. It is always sad to leave people you got to know and have worked with intensely. Hope to go back sometime! The last few days in Sampa were very interesting again. The management team has been working very hard on their business plan. Monday was a buzzy day in OPD again and the last chance to train ultrasound. We went to the seamstress to get my new dress, and I got a chance to see the market, which is really big. . the next day we went on outreach in the morning ,visiting some of the neighborhood health centers. The first village we went to was a small village at the board, with no health centre even. Dr Duodu talked to the local chief there and I was shown around. Within 10 minutes we saw two patients with great problems. They even have no money for transport to hospital. We gave them some cash, and they were seen in the afternoon in the clinic. Everywhere it is the same: the rural areas have bad health care. Ghana's health care system is already much better than Ethiopia, but still lot of problems to be solved!
In the afternoon I was asked to join an application session. It was a fantastic experience, totally different from the way we do it. 12 young people were selected from almost 50 applications. This was only for lower, more or less unskilled jobs. Everyone was allowed in for only a few minutes and the questioning was like an interrogatory, sometimes very personal. Most of them wanted to study on after secondary school, even with very good grades, but had not the means to do this. And of course there is a great unemployment in Ghana, they came from far away. So I got to know another aspect of Ghana life.
Yesterday I drove around in Accra for a few hours and saw some highlights.
Altogether it has been a rich experience, and I look back to this trip with great pleasure,
next week Canada, visit our sun and daughter in law- David and Isabelle.
never a dull moment!
remote village
visiting the health centres
Nkrumah mausoleum in Accra
In the afternoon I was asked to join an application session. It was a fantastic experience, totally different from the way we do it. 12 young people were selected from almost 50 applications. This was only for lower, more or less unskilled jobs. Everyone was allowed in for only a few minutes and the questioning was like an interrogatory, sometimes very personal. Most of them wanted to study on after secondary school, even with very good grades, but had not the means to do this. And of course there is a great unemployment in Ghana, they came from far away. So I got to know another aspect of Ghana life.
Yesterday I drove around in Accra for a few hours and saw some highlights.
Altogether it has been a rich experience, and I look back to this trip with great pleasure,
next week Canada, visit our sun and daughter in law- David and Isabelle.
never a dull moment!
remote village 
visiting the health centres
teaching
Nkrumah mausoleum in Accra
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