Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out...

This is what I have to do in order to cope. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out.


Otherwise I would go crazy here! Every day is so ery very inefficient. You see all these things in the clinic that could be done differently, definitely better, if the system wasn't just so very rigid and people so stuck in their habits. This organization is so very very disorganized...

Every week we (the volunteers) try to organise among our selves so we all have meaningful things to do. But every week, from one day to the other, they change the plans and they tell us the evening before (if we are lucky.) This afternoon they come to me and say ' oh by the way, tomorrow 6 volunteers must go there and 4 volunteers there and 2 volunteers there... and so many people already made other plans (including myself...) sigh!!!

Anyhow, work continues as usual.

Today in the outdoor cinic we got (among all the norma patients) a poor woman who is badly badly burned all over her body. Appareantly she tried to commit suicide (!) but failed, and was sent to hospital. However, after a couple of days in the hospital her family could no longer afford to keep her in hospital and she was sent home - really not fit for it at all!!! So inhumane...


Therefor she was taken by her mother to our outdoor clinic, since they only pay a small small fee for our services, and she was taken to our indoor clinic. She will stay here for a couple of weeks, get proper food and care (well at least I hope it is proper care, however I've heard that you shouldn0t apply any kind of ointment on to a burned patient, but here they put 2 different kinds of cream, one of them silver I think....)

But it0s really a terrible story and unfortunately not an out of the ordinary one (!)

well well, now time for a lecture by our Dr Sujit at the university. Will be interesting!