For his last meal we went to ‘Graceland’ – not the home of Elvis Presley, but a restaurant with a reputation for fast, good food.
It is also alongside the main road to Kampala and is a good place to see the world go by (at least this small part of it).
Mike is coming with his wife, Sue, to work at Potters Village Medical Centre and Rutaka Health Clinic next year. This week he visited Kisoro to find out more about the work, and to find out more about the town. This included visiting a range of restaurants.
His visit coincided with the first community health immunisation clinic held at Potters Village, where about 300 children were immunised against polio and measles.
We spent a day visiting Rutaka Health Clinic. This is located about 20 miles away in one of the remotest parts of the Diocese, along a dirt road which is often impassable .
It is beyond the Safari Lodge we stayed at last September when we were cut off by landslides (blog of 23rd September 2011).
The clinic is staffed by a Clinical Officer, 2 nurses and cleaners.
There were very few patients when we were there but we were told it gets busy, particularly in the malaria season.
Although the clinic is in a stunning location it is very isolated, providing an essential service to villagers unable to make the difficult journey to Kisoro Hospital. Unfortunately the mid-wife left some time ago which means women are unwilling to use the Centre for child-birth preferring to travel many miles on foot to be attended by a female mid-wife.
This weeks ‘proverb’ from the BBC News, Africa website was sent in from the Cameroon: “The elephant that decides to crush a cricket also risks breaking its back”
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