We had a successful trip despite a few beurocratic issues. Our planned 1st clinic day at Kamuchege was cancelled at the last minute by the county governor. So went to Kamahia primary school and pitched in painting classrooms with paint and supplies we previously purchased. This is one of the schools we paid to have latrines refurbished earlier this year
Next we did a long drive northeast to a girls school at Yatta with a really great headmaster. It’s a dry windy dusty area and most of the issues were related to the environment. We did educate the clinical officer about overuse of ophthalmic antibiotics and steroids.
Drove nearly as far the next day to another school very fancy per Kenya standards. Even a school bus and a single bus garage! We were joined by four wonderful 3rd year medical students from Kenyatta University and a different group of four day two.For our last clinic day we traveled far north to Nyahururu. We partnered with an all inclusive clinic( medicine, dental, optometry etc) Equity Afia. I’ll admit I was apprehensive as in past twelve worked out of rudimentary govt clinics but as promised this clinic for this day offered all of there services free of charge as a community outreach program. We had full access to lab, imaging, even consults with a nutritionist. We had all 8 of our medical students rotating between us, triage, other departments.The patients were grateful and there was even a follow up community thank you letter sent! Well worth the long drive!