Africa, EWH, Hospital, Medical Equipment, Tanzania

Funerals at KCMC

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Outside the engineering department of KCMC today. At first I thought they were singing as part of a celebration; it was a national holiday. Later on I realized that they were singing for somebody’s funeral and this place was just outside the mortuary.

Hospital, Moshi, Tanzania

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This vaporizer and anaesthesia is working now and ready to use. Hongera (congratulations). !

Moshi, Tanazania

First week of working in Moshi

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Showing the local staff areas on the suction pump with a high risk of leakage

We asked the local mama who cooked for us to take a photo of us during lunch break.

Uru road just outside the KCMC college where we go to the market etc

Teaching sister Magome how to make your own filters, in case the run out of original ones

The machanic of KCMC. This guy has almost anything, its always worth to go looking at his place before going to town to buy something

This vaporizer took some time to fix – it was my baby for a couple of days

We fixed an old Japanese incubator which needed cleaning before we could it could be used again

KJ (kama rais wa Tanzania, JK lakini badalisha J kwa K = like the President of Tanzania, JK but exchange the J for K)

I am right now having my hair cut with a box cutter. Should give time for updates…

After one month of engineering and Kiswahili training near Arusha (more specifically at MS-TCDC just by Usa River) we (Ashley Reid, KJ Stime and myself) arrived the city of Moshi (which I recently find out translates into “smoke”).

During our stay here we will work at two hospitals: Marwenzi hospital, which is located in the centre of Moshi town and KCMC, which is located at the edge of the city.