Wednesday, August 3, 2011

KATH day 3

I've realised I probably would not want to work here at KATH (Komfo Anokye Teaching Officer). Everything is quite slack and seems not too serious too me. Today the lab results from one of our patients showed she had PTB (pulmonary tuberculosis) after a few days of lying in the ward and potentially passing it on to others perhaps? She was transferred to another ward but that did take some time.
There are so many nurses around in the wards but they all seem like ants slowly running around like headless chickens (sorry but that is what it seems like to me). They seem to be not too caring. Also I've noticed some situations which you would never ever see back home. Okay the bed sheets seem to get changed quite often but then they seem to use the same towel to wash different patients. Oh and also there was a nurse walking around just waving an exposed needle around (without gloves) and then 10 minutes later she stuck it into the patient, but that was definitely not sterile anymore because it's been lying around opened up already.
Not only bad things though, they do have enough materials and meds and definitely not under staffed.

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