We were blessed to have Drs. Greg Shay and Juliane Intek here this last month to help out. Dr. Greg is a newly retired pediatric pulmonologist from the Bay Area. Dr. Juliane is an almost finished pediatric resident from Germany. We kept them busy with the pediatric patients, sick newborns and prematures and learned a lot from them. When they weren’t busy with children, they stretched the age limits of pediatrics and helped out on the adult wards. Their oldest patient was just 104!
They also helped with our outreach clinics, continuing medical education talks (here and at the neighboring Baptist Hospital at Mbingo), and with screening exams at the children’s HIV clinic, the vaccine clinic, and at the orphanage.
Greg also taught the staff how to put in an intraosseous line. This life saving device and technique can allow us to give medications, blood and fluids when we are not able to obtain intravascular access.
Thank you Drs. Greg and Juliane.
What a wonderful Easter gift hearing from my Cameroon family! Sounds like you're keeping yourselves very busy and doing His work with much love and concern. I pray and think about my you and long to come back. Give the kiddies a BIG hug and kiss from me, please.
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