Some of you have followed the story of my 5-year old patient Jenina, a little girl with nephrotic syndrome (protein losing urinary disease) who has been in the hospital since January. Young Jenina went home today!
Some of you have followed the story of my 5-year old patient Jenina, a little girl with nephrotic syndrome (protein losing urinary disease) who has been in the hospital since January. Young Jenina went home today!
The hardest moments were when the mother had to be separated from her child. At one point she had to say “goodbye” to his physical body and I could just feel her pain…
Practicing medicine in any missionary environment is challenging. But what about when the environment is an Emergency Field Hospital in Iraq? And your patient has pieces of UXO (unexploded ordinance) in his chest…
We had a very emotional admission to our malnutrition program this week. This year we had two deaths in one family from malnutrition, Francine and Moise. After paying a home visit to this family, a 10year old hungry child was found. On the home visit, our nutritionist and community advocate
News from Warren in Iraq Warren is currently in Iraq assisting with the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital for the next few weeks. They are receiving wounded civilians leaving the city of Mosul as the city is slowly liberated by Iraqi troups. He wants to inform friends and family that the
“Katho and Singo were their names, typical for twin babies born in the Bira tribe. Samaritan’s Purse evacuated these babies with their mother from their home and brought them to our feeding program.
Well yesterday was the long-awaited day for Congo, December 19th, the end of Kabila’s “reign.” This was the planned election year, however an election was never organized. It seems that Kabila wanted to change the Constitution to stay in office…apparently this is a common occurrence in African countries. We continue