“The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.” – Psalm 34:17

Yesterday we had two serious cases in the clinic. We had two children from neighboring villages who had profuse nose bleeding. A five year old boy was brought to the clinic in the evening with nose bleeding but was in stable condition. The medical team tried their best but could not control the bleeding with use of drugs or medical techniques. The child bled throughout the night until yesterday  morning. He bled for 18 hours  and lost a lot of blood and needed urgent blood transfusion. During the time for referral he had frank bloody diarrhea and he died while on oxygen due to severe anaemia.

The second case came around 1:20 pm, a child of about 6 years old was brought to the clinic with profuse nose bleeding and was losing 500mls of blood every hour. The blood was obstructing the respiratory or breathing system and complicated resuscitation. The child had a very high fever and yellow eyes. He died within 20 minutes of admission.

This was alarming to us that it might be a viral disease associated with bleeding, either yellow fever or ebola.

All the medical staff and Community Health Workers had an urgent meeting to discuss about safety measures and awareness on the cases. We referred an adult man to Wau Hospital with similar symptoms a few days ago. The Minister of Health was alerted of what is going on and he will be sending his team to do surveillance.

Please pray for the two families who lost the two children, also pray for our medical staff for protection against this disease.  Pray that God would strengthen them and encourage them as they continue to serve His people.

“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” – Psalm 46:1

A woman by the name Amel Lual was brought to the clinic yesterday. Thirty years old Amel had severe burns on her both feet. This happened while she was sick. She was cooking in her home while of a sudden she started having convulsions and she fall down and her feet fall on fire and got burned. She needs to be refered to Wau for further treatments and an x-ray. Our Doctors reported that nothing that can be done to her for now because the bones are already out and her legs need to be amputated to prevent gangrenous. Please pray for healing physically, psychologically and emotionally . Another woman was brought to the clinic at around 1:00 pm after a brick fall on her from the wall. Alakor Yar 28 years old is five months pregnant and was sleeping on her back on this rainy morning when this happened. She was covered by the brick wall from the chest to the knees and could not move. Neighbors heard her yelling before they rescued her. On arriving in the clinic she was semi-conscious, we prayed for her and thanked God that she wasn’t hit on the head and has no obvious fracture. Please Pray for viability of fetus because the midwife couldn’t get the fetal heart tones, also pray for her to be healed emotionally and psychologically as well.

“Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.” – 1 Peter 4:10

We had a busy week of more than 20 children of age 2 weeks and less than 2 months admitted with asthma and pneumonia in our clinic. Most asthmatic patients present with chest tightness, wheezing, cough, and breathlessness. There is a lot of prolonged expiration and diffuse wheezes on physical examination.

Asthma is not a common disease in this community, they have little or no knowledge at all on this disease, and therefore there is prevalence of hospitalization for best monitoring and assessing of the severity as we continue to give medications and patient education on self management which is an integral part of effective asthma care. Also ways to control environmental factors that predispose to this disease for long term control.

Drugs used and how to use where most are administered orally and by inhalation where by the clinic’s goals are met when patients are admitted so as to prevent and minimize chronic symptoms and to eliminate the need for emergency visits to our facility which offers only the best we can possible.

Pneumonia is common illness in this community and we admitted about 18 patients this week who came in with symptoms nearly all these patients were children. Symptoms resolve normally in 24 hours so a need for hospitalization in our first level facility, which needs a lot of support to make it better for sufficient patient care to prevent such complications like pneumonia condition which is life threatening.

Malaria is also common in this community. Most of the patients suffering with this sickness are children. Our medical team went to Maloney outreach on Wednesday and treated over 70 patients with malaria.

Every patient who comes to the clinic are given an opportunity to hear about Jesus and also have the time for prayer and counseling after seeing the doctors. We have seen a good number accepting Jesus. They come from villages that have never heard of God, they don’t have any churches or any spiritual leader.

But we strongly believe those who have heard the gospels go out and share with their communities and families. The Bible says “…so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it” Isaiah 55:11. Amen.