The atelier

One of the things I've been really impressed with about the hospital here is its 'ingenuity': in a country and a locale in which things can be really hard to find (whether that is materials needed for building, for operating or for growing things) there seems to be someone here who can 'do' it on site.

For example, there's an amazing workshop round the back of the hospital I just came across this week (the 'atelier') that makes wooden crutches for use by patients who have had an amputation (very common here because of diabetes - many of the patients on the ward seem to be cheerfully-enough waiting for their leg to come off!):

Another thing they do, prompted by a couple of amazing orthopaedic surgeons who've spent time here in the past, are prosthetic limbs, made and manufactured here on site: 

And, again I don't know where these have come from, but there are wheelchairs (and even other, more ingenious methods of transport, seen around the hospital site. Things like this are really good to see:

Hope you are all well. T