After an early start we got to the hospital to spend 2 hours waiting for the doctor to finish his ward round. This gave us time to have a look around and meet some of the staff who will be looking after us. The hospital is quite small, but only has 4 doctors to cover all the wards, look after the maternity unit and do emergency and elective surgery.
We met Dr Addie and he explained that there are going to only be 2 doctors for the first week and then 3 after that. A little unfortunate now that there are 6 medical students. Still, after this morning where we saw about 5 patients, all of whom only spoke Twe, I'm not sure it would make a whole lot of difference if there were less of us. I think it was a bit unfortunate to start on out patient department, as all the other things will hopefully be more interesting.
Still, all in all it's great to be out here, we met 3 of the other students, one from Manchester, one from Sheffield and one from Australia. The house we are staying in is lovely, with real toilets, a tv, dvd player and mobile internet. Should get internet on my phone too later today so will be able to keep in contact more easily.
Monday, 31 January 2011
Accra and beyond
I made it safely to Ghana! Hurray.
Got picked up by Sefa at the airport, and headed to a guest house for the night. The journey was pretty simple and largely painless due to the abundance of animated films available but was tarnished by the annoying kid sitting next to me who decided to kick me periodically to keep me awake. No manners.
Accra was big and sprawling, it was very difficult to orientate yourself around the endless winding streets. Luckily Sefa was driving so we were fine. We managed to go and see independence square and the national museum but it will be good to go back and explore the rest of the capital when we have a bit more time.
From Accra we headed north on a very plush coach (with air conditioning!) to Nkawkaw and from there up a very steep hill to Atibie. Atibie is a small villiage made of a few mansions on the outskirts and mainly dirt roads with small houses on either side. There is a main street which is lined with shops which somewhat bizarely all seem to sell the same things. Everyone is very nice, and we are welcomed by everyone several times a day.
Got picked up by Sefa at the airport, and headed to a guest house for the night. The journey was pretty simple and largely painless due to the abundance of animated films available but was tarnished by the annoying kid sitting next to me who decided to kick me periodically to keep me awake. No manners.
Accra was big and sprawling, it was very difficult to orientate yourself around the endless winding streets. Luckily Sefa was driving so we were fine. We managed to go and see independence square and the national museum but it will be good to go back and explore the rest of the capital when we have a bit more time.
From Accra we headed north on a very plush coach (with air conditioning!) to Nkawkaw and from there up a very steep hill to Atibie. Atibie is a small villiage made of a few mansions on the outskirts and mainly dirt roads with small houses on either side. There is a main street which is lined with shops which somewhat bizarely all seem to sell the same things. Everyone is very nice, and we are welcomed by everyone several times a day.
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Last cup of tea
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Picasa pictures
Ok, so all my pictures are going to be uploaded to the Picasa website, which I have got a slide show running below. Also I will put the really good ones/interesting enough to talk about ones as a part of the text.
Update from my phone
Just checking i can blog from my phone if need be.
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Before The Off
Hello to you all,
Just checking that this is working. Testing testing 123...
Right, so this is going to be my blog for the next 2 months as I head off on elective to Ghana! I know you're as excited as I am and I'll try to keep it updated as I go with plenty of pictures and info about my travels. I don't know whether this is going to be easier than emailing you all individually about what I've been up to, we'll have to see whether you can sign up to get email updates whenever I post here. I'll have a play and tell you if this is possible.
Just checking that this is working. Testing testing 123...
Right, so this is going to be my blog for the next 2 months as I head off on elective to Ghana! I know you're as excited as I am and I'll try to keep it updated as I go with plenty of pictures and info about my travels. I don't know whether this is going to be easier than emailing you all individually about what I've been up to, we'll have to see whether you can sign up to get email updates whenever I post here. I'll have a play and tell you if this is possible.
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