We went to one of the villages to get heights/weights and screen for
malnutrition or other reasons children should see a doctor. We did see some
severely malnourished children. One child that is 1 1/2 years old cannot hold
her head up or sit on her own yet. We referred these children. I enjoy going out
into the villages to assess the children, so I'm glad we got to go. Here at the
hospital, I in-serviced on feeding babies, and on the emergency carts we put
together and the documentation form we are rolling out. We also made a bulletin
board. We just cross out fingers that any of this will have an impact. It's
scary to get sick here! Then, we took a ride in the ambulance. That's when we
got the low down on the baby. We spent about an hour with them. We didn't get
any calls. So, they just took us to several food stands, and didn't seem to
understand, "no thank you". So, we tried something they called mango ice cream,
but was not ice cream at all. It did have ice in it though. We had some mango
juice, and bananas and tried a guava and some other fruit.
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