June 28 Catchup!

Sorry this is mt first post. It has been a long and busy few days. Flew to New York on that first day and then flew to Accra, Ghana which took about 11 hrs. Then we boarded a twin prop plane and flew about half an hour to one of the main cities, Kumasi. This city is about 4M people but very far behind compared to the US. After getting to Kumasi we then took a bus for 3 1/2 hrs to a small place of 80,000 called Sunyani. This is where my daughter and the other students have being staying. Unfortunately, my suitcase did not join me to Kumasi. There is only one flight a day so we had to leave it as we were coming back to this city on Saturday which is today! I had one extra change of clothes in my backpack carry on which helped but in being those two sets for FIVE days was worse then camping! It is so hot and humid that my clothes were wet most of the time! We are now back in Kumasi and I have my bag! Hooray!..and of course internet access. Hooray! So let me tell you w hat I have been doing. On the first day in Sunyani we really just met up with the rest of the group. Then we  toured the clinic and regional hospital. My heart goes out to these sweet people and the health professionals trying to help them with limited resources. I wish I have money to give them or at least to buy a bed for one of the wards. The clinic said they can only help the number of mothers who are in labor with the number of beds that they had. There were 6 beds and only 3 with mattresses. My daughter said that she was trying to help a little boy about 5 who was hit by a car. He was not doing well and they needed an x-Ray of his chest. They had a machine donated to the hospital but they did not know how to use it! My daughter has been an x-ray tech for 15 yrs and tried to help but ran out of time :-(  the dr at the hospital also told us that they did hv a CT scanner but they used it, they had to divert the power from the rest of the hospital in order for it to work! So sad!