Late again

I can not believe it is Thursday already. We seem to have been busier than usual this week and both of us have a cold or flu as it is called in Uganda. All the patients are demanding antibiotics for their coughs and runny noses and I am not popular when they just get paracetomol.
We have had another visitor to stay. Grace has just qualified and has been teaching me modern medicine and I have been teaching her cynicism to prepare her for life as a doctor. It has been really good to have another medic to discuss cases. There have been a lot of sick patients this week including a poor lady who had a fit and fell in a fire. She has 60% burns and has been lucky to survive. We have managed to transfer her to Hope Ward at the International Hospital Kampala Thanks to Grania another VSO doctor who works there. The hospital had no money for the fuel to take her so I used some of the donations from the UK.It is so useful having that money to dip in to but I do not want to give the impression that I am the muzungo with a cash answer to every ones problem.
Next week Dan is coming out which will be great we are really looking forward to him coming.
To the guy who left a comment about groups of teenagers running around Masindi. It was Kabalega Secondary Schools army training group preparing for their passing out parade