Oversimplified Public Health (with photos)

For those of you interested in oversimplified public health tidbits and high quality photos: I present to you some of this. For more, see this story from The Huffington Post about Malawi's health care system.

 

This photo of the Maternity Ward in Dedza gives you an inkling of the true horror of many of the hospital wings around here. Bare mattresses, overcrowding, persistent heat, the smell of bleach and dirt mixed, medical contraptions from 1932 (see below) and screaming children. The hospitals are my least favorite place to find myself on a work day.

 

The slide show is pretty optimistic about the success in training healthcare workers in 'bagging' an infant who isn't breathing. Really, thank goodness for small things like this training, because parents sometimes have to squeeze the bags themselves currently - and no parent wants to be the one doing the breathing for a baby who then dies. 

And now back to our regular dog and plant updates.