MMU Kina
Last Wednesday we ran a mobile medical unit in our biggest slum of Kinawataka.
It was the first time we had taken a Ugandan doctor who works at our local clinic with us into Kinawataka.
We had a slow start with some challenges getting all our team and all our equipment there and then through the slum to the site where our mobile medical unit was to be placed.
We saw around 40 children that day and gave free consultations to all and free medication to those who needed it.
We were thankful we had been that day as we met 2 children who had serious conditions who we’ve since seen for follow up care. One was a 3 month old baby boy Moses with severe malaria – not uncommon in Kinawataka whose name translates as smelly waters and it most definitely lives up to its name. It is an area of land next to the railroad tracks which has no clean running water but has plenty of dirty sewagelike water running through the passages between the houses.
Another was a lovely little 3 year old girl, Shakira who hadn’t been able to sleep for 4 days and whose condition was something we hadn’t realised was possible. Initially we thought was a severe abscess on her lower bottom but on closer examination the next day at Wellspring clinic we discovered that it was not an abscess. But that the “abscess” was actually the little girl’s intestine showing outside her body! All caused by a bacterial infection.
After several hours at our clinic and an antibiotic drip, with her intestine safely back inside her body we were able to take Shakira and her mamma back home and we’ve seen her since running and playing with the other children.
Moses the young baby with malaria has since been admitted to Malago, the government hospital with associated anaemia and dehydration but has been making a good recovery after nurses were able to insert an IV to deliver fluids.
Praise God that we were able to meet these children, love on them and help them to heal. Some days our love looks practical, meeting sick children and treating them. Other days our love is a kind word and hugs and kisses, neither is more valuable than the other but each is just as important.
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