Mbingo Baptist Hospital

Here's a pic of the front of Mbingo Baptist Hospital. I will post more up soon. The missionaries tell me that every time they leave for the States and come back, a new building or unit has gone up. It is actually more advanced than I had expected the hospital to be. The therapy department consists of an exercise gym, treatment rooms, an shoe repair store (for orthotic shoes and feet of those with leprosy), and prosthetic lab for amputations. My favorite co-workers are the prosthetic guys who are so funny and let me hang out with them during down-time to teach me how they make the prosthetic legs. There's another physical therapist who was trained in Nigeria and 4-5 other PT assistants or aides. I am very grateful that I did traveling physical therapy for a year because it really prepared me to jump right in and learn different systems.
There is a men, women, children, maternity, orthopedic and wound/leprosy ward. Each ward has about 50 beds lined up next to each other and a family member usually stays to take care of the patient. There are also private rooms for the richer people who do not want to associate with the 'lower' people in the hospital and for those with infectious diseases. I am seeing a lot of people with fractures, TB of the spine, and a WHOLE lot of neuropathy. A lot of patients claim they woke up one day and had no muscle activation in the left side of their face or no wrist extension. Very interesting.
More to come, but I wanted to write a tidbit about the hospital today :)