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Day 11: Should I try and save this woman?
A recurring theme at Amana Hospital in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania is the chronic lack of resources. There isn’t much healing and recovery going on in the medicine ward because there isn’t a lot of real...
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Day 12: Things You See in Dermatology
After some difficult days in the medicine ward and delivery room, I took shelter today in the dermatology clinic at Amana Hospital in Dar Es Salaam. Dermatology Clinic, Amana Hospital Today being...
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Day 13: Lupus, Leprosy and Kaposi’s Sarcoma [NSFW]
Dermatology in Africa differs from the US or Canada in one big way – there isn’t much skin cancer. Darker people with more melanin in their skin aren’t as susceptible to it. But they do have more...
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Day 14: Appendicitis or Ovarian Cyst?
Many surgeries in Tanzania are performed with no CT scans or MRIs done beforehand. A surgeon could open someone’s abdomen only to find a completely different problem than what was originally suspected....
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Day 15: Mother Teresa’s Orphanage in Dar Es Salaam
My biggest fear when we visited the Mother Teresa Orphanage in Dar Es Salaam was that the kids would get attached to us and it would be hard to leave. Well, it was difficult to leave because I was...
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Day 16: TMJ Private Hospital
After three weeks rotating through government hospitals in Dar Es Salaam, we got to work with a distinguished physician at the TMJ Hospital today. I say distinguished because Dr. Kapiteni, the head...
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Day 17: The Death of a Patient
Since coming to Tanzania I’ve written a lot about death – there’s plenty of it in this country, as there is everywhere else, but for reasons I’m not used to. People are seemingly dying needlessly. But...
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Day 18: The Most Unusual Surgery
Today we saw a surgery that we’ll likely never see again. A young man in his early 20’s walked in to the ENT operating theater at Muhimbili National Hospital with a large tumor on his forehead that...
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Day 19: The Gay-Tolerant PASADA HIV/AIDS Clinic
Tanzania has some excellent HIV testing and treatment facilities, thanks in part to copious amounts of western aid and oversight. One of the crown jewels of the HIV/AIDS program in Tanzania is the...
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Day 20: Tanzania’s Only Cancer Treatment Center
Tanzania, a country of over 50 million people, has one cancer treatment center, the Ocean Road Cancer Institute, whose main building is a former German colonial hospital built in 1895. In colonial...
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