The hospital regularly gets volunteer doctors, medical students, and nurse anesthesists who come for 1 month or more to serve at the hospital. It has been fun for me to get to meet the different volunteers who have recently been here. I have also enjoyed have extra invitations for dinner. When new people arrive the missionaries invite them over for dinner, and often I have been invited too :)
Drs. Susan and David Oviatt are from Grand Rapids, MI. She is a FP and he is a heme/IM guy. They are here for 2 months. They have enjoyed doing all sorts of things while here. Above they are getting ready to place a cast on this gentleman's leg. They have been working on the medical ward thus far taking care of many complicated patients. Dr. Susie is becoming an expert at diagnosing hepatomas with US, and Dr. David is providing a lot of assistance with doing bone marrows and determining which type of leukemia some of our patients have.
Angela Jordan is a CRNA. She will be here for 3 months helping out our nurse anesthesists that we have here, and giving some of them a vacation. Outside of surgery, she helps out by providing anesthesia for our minor procedures that we do each day - from setting broken bones to incising abscesses to debridements. She has also been helpful in our neonatal resuscitations after CS.
