Eight days left of rotation, that is!
Today we finished up at Nairobi Hospital. We have tomorrow off because Nairobi is rampantly Christian, so Friday is a national holiday. Fine by me! We're heading to the elephant orphanage and giraffe center in Nairobi with a few friends tomorrow to see some urban wildlife. We're hoping to hit up a museum in that area too called Bomas to see more of the history of Kenya. Then Saturday we're planning on seeing the National Archives and Nairobi Museum to get a little culture too! Since we'll be in Nairobi this weekend, we're hoping to see a little of the nightlife too. We're planning on hopefully heading to another park out of town next weekend, then we head home the weekend after. Time is ticking down here!
We were pretty happy to finish up at Nairobi Hospital mostly because they don't have very expansive clinical services nor have ward rounds, so there isn't much to do except verify and pack meds. But the people were nice, even if the rotation was pretty unstructured. But we did get to take tea and eat bread whenever we wanted. That was a major plus.
The only really interesting thing about the site is they basically had every brand name med still in production. Like ancient meds we struggle to remember to know brand names to. They have them all. And patients demand them. Counterfeits are so feared here that those with money get the "originals" to avoid this problem. And if you're VIP, you wait in the director's office, not the waiting area. They they personally deliver your meds to you. It's classy. Or classist.
Anyway, there's a short update. We're off to our community site next week. Things are supposed to be quite different there vs America, so we'll learn a lot there. Until then, thanks for reading!
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