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.
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