Laboratorys and Kitchens

Last Saturday the new Laboratory opened. There was no formal opening ceremony. However it was important that there was no interruption to the service given to patients. 

Although there was still some construction work going on it was remarkable that the service never closed.

The old Lab was a cramped, single room where different types of testing were carried out and there was no separate area to take blood samples from patients. The new laboratory, which so far has cost little more than £18,000 has separate rooms to see patients, and carry out the different types of tests.

 

We were invited to a meal at the home of Sarah, the woman who cleans for us. Sarah has for Uganda a reasonably sized house with a lounge and a bedroom for herself and her son. This is an improvement on her previous home which just had one small room and no cooking area.

Cooking is done in a small, outside room.

And if you think (wrongly) this method of cooking is inefficient, go to the following linK

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/06/thermal-efficiency-cooking-stoves.html
 
This week we saw an enormous caterpillar.

This week’s proverb from the BBC Africa web-site is from Kenya: “No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yam”