Tomorrow is my first day at the hospital – we went for a tour today and it is completely indescribable as almost everything here is. It is divided into Old Mulago and New Mulago. Old is a web of dozens of smaller buildings housing wards including TB care, pediatric oncology, labor and delivery (just to name a few). The buildings are built with red dirt paths connecting them and several of the walkways are covered. New Mulago is a six-story open air more modern hospital building with newer  operating theatres, more labor and delivery, more infectious disease wards, the ER, cardiology and many other specialties.

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Thirty-six hours of travel and I’m finally in Kampala, Uganda. I’m rotating at Mulago Hospital through Makerere University College of Health Sciences for the next four weeks. There are 3 other DMU students here this month and medical students and residents from all over the world training at Mulago.

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Today we got all packed up and headed out to Valle for the morning. This adorable little town allowed us to buy some souvenirs and have some local snacks. Around noon we headed back to the airport in Tegucigalpa. After saying goodbye to the amazing staff we headed out to Guatemala City and then on to Chicago. After a long bus ride home we made it back to DMU early Sunday morning. Thank you to everyone who checked in on us, supported us, and thought about us on our trip. We cannot wait to share our experiences and memories with all of you!

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Today we head out to our last day of brigading. I want to take a minute to first thank our health care professionals and doctors. Without them this trip would not have been possible. Below is the amazing group that took time out of their schedules to join our group, teach us more than we ever could have imagined and provide health care to those in need. Not only were we able to interact with the physicians, but also our professors, Dean, pharmacist, translator, and social worker as well. A thousand thank you’s from us to them.

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Morning sunrise at the compound

Today we moved to the next community of Naranjal. The bus ride in the morning was a little bit shorter and we arrived at the new community bright and early to get started. The set up worked the same way as the first community with a triage station, consultation, pharmacology, Charla and cytology. Similar to the first community we were located in a school with classrooms and a soccer field. Lucky for the students they get a couple days off when we are using the site.

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We returned to the same community today and once again there was a line of patients waiting for our arrival. After 251 patients seen in less than eight hours on Tuesday, we worked another seven hours today to get through the entire group that showed up! It was amazing not to have anyone be turned away from treatment.

When I asked some of the students about their favorite part of the day this is what they said:

• Opportunity to learn extensively from the doctors traveling with us
• Children’s “Charla” (educational talk) and teaching the kids proper hygiene while connecting with them!

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