Speared! (Photo warning)

An adult male patient was brought to our clinic on tonight around 11.00 pm.  Majuok was working in his garden around 6 pm when a certain man came from nowhere and attacked him.  He pierced him with a spear on his right arm when Majuok tried to protect himself.

He tried to run as fast as he could but the man ran after him and pierced the spear on his left abdomen.  He continued running with the spear being in his abdomen.  When he tried to pull it out the large intestines came out through a narrow opening.  As a result of this, compression over the intestines occured and the tissues were already dying.  Our medical staff were alerted and they immediately stabilized the patient and gave him antibiotics, cleaned and covered the wound.  Our compound manager was called, he prayed for Majuok and together with one of our Community Health Worker they took the patient to Wau Hospital in the ambulance for further treatment and for surgery.  In the morning the following day he was being prepared for surgery.He is still in Wau Hospital undergoing treatment.  Please pray for him for his recovery.  If we get an update we will let you know.

Ambulance in use

A man was brought into our clinic by the In Deed and Truth ambulance.  He is a 22 year old man having convulsions and bizarre behavior for three days, the village medicine man did not help much with his charms, incantation and animal sacrifices. When he went into coma they felt like a second opinion was in order so the ambulance was called to go about 12 miles to the village. It sounded pretty typical for malaria with convulsions bizarre behavior then lapse into coma.  The cases of malaria has dropped with start of dry season. I believe our agressive treatment of malaria is paying off.  Malaria is only transmitted to humans from humans by mosquitoes.  Therefore if we decrease folks with malaria we decrease source of malaria,I have learned to pick up malaria in older folks who do not get as sick as children and pregnant and nursing mothers but if allowed to carry the parasite serve as source for mosquitoes to pick up parasite and then give malaria to children and preg or nursing women. Everyone have a great Thanksgiving

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