A Quick Recovery

I am feeling much better now! Possibly because I went to two church services on Sunday and then slept for the rest of the day....

On Monday, I visited Iguhu District Hospital where Matthew, one of the other interns, works. The Records Officer at Shibwe took me because she needed to drop some documents off, so I met up with Matthew and toured around his hospital. It is much bigger and nicer than Shibwe (because it is a district hospital rather than sub-district), and gave me a few ideas on how to improve Shibwe. Afterward, I took the Records Officer, Beatrice, out for lunch. She has become one of my best friends at the hospital and extremely helpful whenever I have questions. She told me that Kenya has a total of 42 tribes, meaning that there are 42 different languages in Kenya alone! She then asked me what my "mother tongue" was and was shocked that I said it was English.

Yesterday, I wrote up a 'Client Satisfaction Survey' to give out to 100 patients. My supervisor at the hospital advised me to write it, and gave me copies of surveys they have used in the past. He wants me to follow each patient that I give a survey to around with them throughout their entire time at the hospital, so the project may take a few days to finish. I am very interested to see the feedback I get!

Interesting Fact: The Kenyan government is still very corrupt. Each time I take a bus (matatu) into Kakamega, the police are stationed at various spots along the road, and force the drivers to pay them 100 shillings (about $1.30) each time they pass. My homestay uncle owns a matatu business, and was explaining to me how the cartels are very well-known and established all throughout Kenya.

I have been trying to post pictures of my homestay house/compound and of the hospital onto the blog for awhile now, but the internet connection has been too poor lately. For some reason, Facebook has been 1000x faster so I have just posted some pictures onto my Facebook if you would like to see! (Kenyans use Facebook, too!)