Back at Tenwek

It has been exhilarating to be back here at Tenwek Hospital in western Kenya. God has grown this place and people in remarkable and beautiful ways since I visited 5 years ago towards the end of residency. It is fun to see how the pediatrics ward, nursery, and clinic are still run similarly by Dr. Chuck Bemm and his hard-working rotating interns. Yet the scope and capacity of pediatric care has grown along with many of the medical services that Tenwek Hospital offers. There is now a more polished ICU service which is carefully being evolved to try and figure out how to balance resource spending with proper choice of medically reversible cases to place in the ICU. There is now a CT scanner here, so one can imagine the decisions to be made which have to take in account the cost of such things that literally may cost the patient's family a cow or a piece of land. The space and time are too short to review all the other developments here, but I have been so impressed by its breadth and its centrality on the compassionate healing that comes through Christ Jesus. There is even a hospice ministry which travels crazy terrains and distances to bring prayer, medicine, and touch to certain suffering patients.
The work has been busy, as I have been working in both the Emergency ("Casualty") Dept as well as the Peds ward. Here are a few pics/cases: