The following day we were introduced to the maternal-child ward.
Women delivering have a
minimum amount of privacy during their stay. Beds are side by side. If the
delivery is uncomplicated they stay only 6 hours post-partum…yes that is six
hours. During a patients labor course one of the patients became sick and
vomited in the bathroom, she was then required to mop up after herself. The
L&D nurses here are great, but life is hard, and the expectation for
patients in the hospital is that care is performed professionally, however
without the manufactured sympathy that we may express in the states.
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| Delivery Suite. |
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| NICU |
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| Labor "Rooms" |
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| Dan doing a c/s. |
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| Postpartum (only 6 hours granted) |
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| "Kilata", ante-antepartum. Where women who are from "far away" come to stay awaiting labor. |
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| 28 weeker Dan is caring for in the NICU. |
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| Twins Dan delivered. Twin two was a footling breech. |
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