WEEKLY REPORT AS AT 20th TO 26th SEPTEMBER 2010

NOTE: All Currency is in Kenyan Dollars for this entry.


THE CLINIC

We only managed to see 14 outpatients and 5 maternity cases. One mother gave birth but the infant died, the nurse said that just when the mother was in labour she threw herself on the ground and that could have been the cause of her baby dying.

We raised a total of Kshs 41,290higher than last week. Maternity generated Kshs 14,600 while outpatients generating Kshs 26,690 the expenses totaled Kshs 34,268 higher than last week due to high cost of drugs, leaving a balance of Kshs 7,022, which was saved, to the bank.

Petty Cash – Njuguna’s shop

This is a shop where we pick items to be used at the clinic such as milk, sugar, detergents etc etc. We agreed to be paying every end of month so in August we used KShs 13,300, which we paid in this week.

Drugs – This week we paid Ksh 11,400/- for the drugs.

Staff - Peninah who is our Pharm Tech has left the clinic. According to her she went to further in her career, but we knew that was not the case. Despite my persuasion to stay on did not yield any fruits. Generally, she was not a good worker as she failed to maintain an accurate data at the pharmacy and could not agree to be corrected. The worst of all is when we asked her to bring back the laptop (donated by Teresa) that was in her procession. Anytime we asked her to return the lab top a quarrel could erupt. The problem is that when Florence gave her the laptop to take for repair sometime last year, she never signed anywhere.

LEARNING CENTRE
All was well during the week apart from two children from Kileleshwa and one from the Learning centre who were sick. They were

1. Ian Savindi, had a surgical wound near his right heel, which was scratched by an old iron sheet and stayed without coming for treatment. He was sent back from school because he couldn’t put on shoes. He has been coming for dressing for 5 days and now healed.

2. Baron Babu had diarrhea and headaches. Was tested and found with malaria and treated.

3. Samuel from the Learning centre brought in the clinic unconscious by a Good Samaritan. Examined and found with high malaria, had been given some drugs on an empty stomach and became weak. Admitted for observation and has now recovered and discharged. I understand the mother is upcountry so he was alone in the house.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH
The number of clients has narrowed down again to 13. They still claim, luck of food and medication is the cause of them going to other projects. I encouraged them to continue coming as we are trying to see whether we shall find a donor who could donate some food.

Support Group – The few who have remained look forward to start a project, which could generate some income so that they don’t keep waiting to be helped.