We were met at Maroua airport by one of the long-term partners at the hospital and taken to Meskine, the village/ town where the hospital has been built.
No photos to offer yet – they can come in the next post. But I’ll try to give you a sense of what it is. The hopital de Meskine was planned, set up and built in the early 1990s by a group of American (and other nationalities) Christians in order to provide health care to the area. Now, it’s pretty big, and definitely thriving – male, female, paediatric, maternity, VVF wards, a surgical theatre, a pharmacy, and an outpatients/ clinic area. It’s almost entirely staffed now by Cameroonian doctors, nurses and surgical technicians. Patients come from all around the north of Cameroon – as well as Nigeria and Chad (we’ve met lots of Chadaians already).
We’ve had a tour around and this morning, we attended medical teaching sessions and a medical ward round. I’ve been helping Sarah translate the French (everything is conducted in French or Fulfulde, the local language).
Work in the surgical ‘bloc’ starts tomorrow for Sarah – we’ll update you as soon as we can!
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