Blog- 11- worm your kids!!!

Day 11
This place is insane! I've just walked out after a clinic day where some patients have waited since 730 am. It is now 730pm!!! They need a doctor here more often. 
A baby with an awful cleft palate can't eat and drink because every time he swallows the food comes out her nose and she chokes. Cairns and TI speech / dietitians sent a special teat, but no food for a woman who can't afford formula for this child. She is 12 months old and is the size of a 7 mth old baby. Thank God for the angels at my church who sent 9 cans of formula today!  It should arrive in two weeks, and we should see some improvement.

A 7 year old girl came in with a haemoglobin of 20!  It should be 120-160 . Her blood was so thin that when I bled her it was like watered down rose wine. Her spleen and liver are highly inflamed and she is a walking worm and parasite farm.

I gave her 5 ml of this medicine, and 5 ml of that medicine.  6 different drugs in total and an ice block... She beamed.  She had never had one before and didn't know how to eat it (one of those water icy blocks in the plastic sleeve).  Her dad said "...this was the most food she eat in 1 week".  ....it WAS NOT FOOD It was MEDICINE!!!!

sorry for the short blog but 10 x 12 days in a row, have taken it out of me, and I'm having an early night... Until I'm called out!!

Do me a favor people, give your kids a feed and a dose of vermox!

Give to your local church... I'll be calling on them any day now!