So we're officially half way through the block. And I hate to say that we're more or less excited about that. In retrospect, Kenyatta and Universal were awesome sites. It's hard not to have downtime when you're at a site for 1 week and not actually learning skills, just observing. That's just par for the course. We actually learned a lot, and people took a lot of time out of their days to arrange our schedules and spend a few hours at a time not doing their work, but showing us around. So generous, truly.
So now we're at Nairobi Hospital, which is a private hospital serving Kenya. Being so, there are no ward rounds for us to go on, no clinical pharmacists covering services, etc. Just pharmacists in distribution pharmacies. Which we've done a million times before. On our first day, we were split up to see two different pharmacist for two days. TWO days. To learn how things work. We're not learning how to DO their jobs, just how they do them. Anyway, on day two, I spoke with our coordinator at the hospital, telling her of our expectations, that we'd like a tour, hopefully see some of the services in the hospital, etc. But instead, we spent our morning back in the same pharmacy. We took a nice long tea break. Then go back to the pharmacy. Then lunch. Then back to the pharmacy. We've even asked the chief pharmacist for a tour. Nothing. Seems like a basic tour would be in order, but nah. Also, the way it works here appears to be that patients are so wealthy that their private doctors just get whatever they want, so pharmacist intervention doesn't really exist here.
Translation, boring.
BUT good news is that because this city is so religious, we get Good Friday off. And the second half of that good news is that the city museums are still open on national holidays! So museum Friday it is!
Other than that, I have very few updates other than I'm so tired of eating rice and potatoes.
Despite this being a dismal update, things are still going well here. The rains have begun, so that's fun to deal with, but they're scattered, so no biggie.
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