--After the past days of long waits and false starts, today at a private school in Kotto Up we did what we came to Cameroon to do – we saw patients! This school was the perfect first site – it’s the only Anglophone school in a huge area, thus the children speak African English which decreased our need for translators. These are immigrant children whose families have come here from Nigeria and northern Cameroon to work in the fields and palm plantations. When the Cameroon government declined the parents' request for an Anglophone school in this Francophone region, they found the materials, built it, found and hired capable and committed teachers
--Although the game plan was to assess 2-3 WEH children while the rest of the school was participating in health education activities, there were 5 from this school and a teacher sent for the other 20 from the building next door! We saw them all – mostly healthy and well, a few coughs and runny noses, and one stoically sick boy who we sent to the hospital for further evaluation and treatment. Later we learned that he was given several prescriptions for what probably is a complicated urinary tract infection. Glad we sent him!
This girl patiently let several people look in her ear to practice ear exams.
--Dinner back in Mangamba was a delicious African soup that I love every time its served – I haven’t the faintest idea what the seasons are, but I am to find out.
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