The Amani Mission Team has finished up the February medical Camp. The team worked on continued upgrading of equipment, training, and completing over a dozen cataract surgeries.
Below are some pictures of two local eye surgeons, Dr. Frank Okada Nyakagwa and Dr. Barake Atunga Dennis, working alongside Dr. Michel Gelinas from the Amani Mission Team.
We wanted to pass on to you the latest news !
1. The Amani Health Centre has been officially registered as a hospital by the Kenyan government! This is what we’ve needed and worked toward, and it is huge!
2. The midwife just gave us a list of what all is needed in order to deliver babies there, and it totalled $5,000. A generous donor family, without blinking an eye, sent a check for $5,300 to cover the cost!
3. Our Clinical Officer said that two women have registered to have their babies at Amani Centre next month!
We’re on the way! Attached are some pictures of equipment arriving and being installed. By onsite local Kenya “Hospital Staff”
Our Kenya mission team finished up the February 2020 medical camp on the 22nd. They stayed for the first time their last night in the newly finished guest rooms on the second floor. We can’t wait to hear how that went upon their return! Here are some pictures in random order.
We arrived safely in Kenya and I have met another great team! Today we were shown the new O.R. at the district hospital (about 30 minutes from the village where we hold medical camps and are building the Health Centre). It has one room designated to cataract surgery. This is a huge step in the whole process! We met the 2 new recent grads in ophthalmology who have just been appointed here, and they are eager to learn and use the state of the art equipment Dr. Michel Gelinas has brought with us over the last 3 years. Thanks to everyone who donated funds to make this possible! It’s great having Dr. Mike’s wife Cathy Holling Gelinas and his surgical tech Penny along with us. Penny will be training techs here to work with the surgeons when we’re not here. It’s also great to have Susan E Solomon and Linda Densmore on the team! They’ve already been wonderful! Today Dr. Mike is meeting with the governor, the minister of health and the press. It’s exciting!
