I am hopelessly behind on this blog and it's late, but I have to tell you about one patient. On Friday a woman came into the clinic in labour. As Nancy checked her out, she noticed blood on her feet. On questioning the woman, the staff said that she had just delivered. Nancy said no, I don’t think so, she is pregnant. The actual story is this. The woman had delivered a dead baby in her garden, then walked to the clinic where Nancy delivered the twin. Critical to the birth was a suction machine that Paul and Debbie had ordered and which had just arrived that morning. The baby was premature and had to be resuscitated which Debbie did. The mother haemorrhaged severely so again the oxytocin that Paul and Debbie had purchased was essential. The clinic is not equipped to look after a premature baby so after the delivery the woman walked to our van and our driver Francis drove her and the baby and Paul down the bumpy road to the public Buhinga Hospital in Fort Portal. They would have turned her away (their only incubator was out of order) but Paul insisted that they take her because the baby needed a feeding tube.
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