He made the 10 hour roller coaster ride over the potholes to come here from the capital. He had so much pelvic pain and difficulty urinating he couldn’t sleep at night.
People ask why do patients come from so far away to Bere Adventist Hospital? One reason is that over 90% of the population has no access to safe and affordable surgical care. Most of the surgery performed here is by nurses or general practitioners with very little surgical training.
This man had to wait several days for his operation because we were so busy operating on people who would die if we didn’t treat them first. Today he was so happy to have his turn under the knife. His face lit up when we showed him this rock we took out of his bladder. He and his family were all admiring and photographing the stone. Of all the things we do, taking out a bladder stone seems to be one of the more impressive things in the eyes of people here.
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