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18 januari 2015

Electronic Karma ran out, long time no update

First of all, sorry for the long radio silence, but here is what happened. First my camera broke, got it fixed in Mwanza. Next, my external hard disk with all my pictures on it decided to freak out, so I had to scramble and salvage all the files. ...

Shirati - Tanzania

4 januari 2015

Heri ya mwaka mpya

Heri ya mwaka mpya, Happy New Year The year 2014 ended well at Shirati’s Maternity Ward. I helped deliver two healthy baby boys (boy to girl ratio for all my deliveries is around 10:1 weirdly enough), and all the ward patients are doing fine. ...

Shirati - Tanzania

28 december 2014

Is this real life?

We were in need of a break again. We just had had Christmas holiday, where the hospital was almost empty and the only medical stuff I did was administer chemo to four Burkitts Lymphoma patients. Still my house mates and I went to Mwanza for the ...

Shirati - Tanzania

25 december 2014

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, seriously I am. And with a combination of Lariam pills, the flu and unusually cold weather, it is almost like it is snowing inside my mosquito net. Lariam has the (pleasant) side effect that you get very vivid ...

Shirati - Tanzania

21 december 2014

Hospital appreciation day

It’s Saturday, so I was a little confused as to why my alarm clock went of at 5:45am. Today is hospital appreciation day, where we kill a bull, cook, clean and strengthen the team bonds by sifting through rice together. I attended the intended ...

Shirati - Tanzania

19 december 2014

Nothing really mattress

Doctors are gods: it’s time you all start acknowledging that fact. Not because we have super powers and are worshipped by many, but because we are never around when you need us. At least that’s how the nurses must have felt last week in Shirati. ...

Shirati - Tanzania

13 december 2014

I could have danced all night

There are only three ways of partying in Shirati: going to the bar when Manchester United is playing, a wedding or a so-called send off. Yesterday we were invited to the send off of a young woman in Shirati. A send off is a wedding like ceremony ...

Shirati - Tanzania

12 december 2014

Deadly Politics

Last Tuesday it was Tanzanian Independence day. In the hospital this meant that Dr Pim was the only doctor on call and that all elective surgeries had been postponed till Thursday. So we, three interns and Dr Pim roamed the wards, discharged, made ...

Shirati - Tanzania

7 december 2014

Sinterklaas in lab coat and Kanga mijter

Long time no blog. It’s not that nothing has happened, it’s just that I haven’t found the time to write anything. Partly because we were hustling to find water (city pumps weren’t working because of hakuna umeme), partly because my female ...

Shirati - Tanzania

29 november 2014

Mwanza Bonanza

How many people does a Mazda mini-van seat? If you buy it of the market in Europe it seats seven comfortably. If it’s Tanzania, it seats eighteen. Not so comfortably. Inge and I are on our way for a relaxing weekend in Mwanza. Yes I know how ...

Mwanza - Tanzania

29 november 2014

I'm thankful for the kukus

There is something appealing to foreign or unfamiliar holidays. I have never experienced Thanksgiving before, but since I am sharing my house with two Americans, I was bound to celebrate it this year. My knowledge about Thanksgiving was rudimental, ...

Shirati - Tanzania

28 november 2014

Pass me the drill please

The orthopedic surgeon from Mwanza came this week to do all the orthopedic surgeries for this month. It's a particularly good looking fellow, as he is well aware, our entire female staff is drooling over him while he walkes past. He on the other ...

Shirati - Tanzania

23 november 2014

The more you know, a public service announcement

I never thought I would attend a pageant show in Tanzania, but that is exactly what I did this weekend. Miss Maji Safi was crowned after a 6 hour-long ceremony on Saturday. Miss Maji Safi means Miss Safe Water, and was organized by the local health ...

Shirati - Tanzania

18 november 2014

Sex ED with Dr. Ogendo

So, I should have known that today’s operation day would be quite funny, because I’m assisting Dr. Ogendo (the one with the famous “now fuck the table” quote) and Dr. Shwa’ib. Dr. Shwa’ib is over the moon with delight that even patients ...

Shirati - Tanzania

18 november 2014

Land of the euphemisms

It smells of cat food again. The “hospital cat” has had kittens, and now both the female ward and the male ward smell weird. I’m doing rounds in the Male Ward with the recently graduated Dr. Shwa’ib and soon learn that the charts are riddled ...

Shirati - Tanzania

13 november 2014

Now fuck the table

I’m scrubbing in on the two C-sections today. They ask me to put on a hair cap and a mask, both are made of fabric and are falling apart. I wash my hands and fore arms and walk into the sterile room where I try on the washed and reused surgical ...

Shirati - Tanzania

13 november 2014

All hands on deck

I’m back at the maternity ward and it seems there is no end to the stream of women that are in labour today. The labour room can hold about six women at the time, but at 8:30 already we have multiple women sharing beds. Dr. Yvonne and I are called ...

Shirati - Tanzania

12 november 2014

Karibu, welkom to Shirati

Morning report is at 7:45 at the chapel, right in the middle of the hospital. This morning report is mostly done in English, but once the discussions start, I’m lost in the crossfire of half English, half Swahili vocabulary. As far as I understood ...

Shirati - Tanzania

9 november 2014

Pizzas, Zebras and Impalas

I should have known that my lucky streak can never last that long. Today I awoke at 3 o’ clock in the morning to be brought to Dar es Salaam Airport again. Upon my arrival at the airport, at 4:30 in the morning, after completing security (in front ...

Shirati - Tanzania

8 november 2014 | Door: Clara Zijlstra

Jambo! Three seats for you

Well that went better than expected. The first 24 hours of the trip were uneventfull, even pleasant. Half empty planes make for excellent sleeping compartements, and with three seats, blankets and pillows, that's exactly what I did. I was greeted ...

Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

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Clinical elective at Shirati Hospital, Tanzania

Doing a clinical elective (medical microbiology) at Shirati District Hospital in Tanzania

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21 December 2014

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