Blogs & Stories
Apr 26, 2009
Today manage to send the e-mail to Clara, hope you can share my experience in AlTahl. Today the main news is the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico, US and Canada. It may well be a case of flu pandemic developing. Let’s keep our finger cross. Al Tahl...
Apr 25, 2009
Day after prayer day, it starts to be quite busy. The 100 yrs old man with gangrene, infected foot returned. One of his family members is a doctor. He talked with the family and advised them to take him back for amputation. They understood and...
Apr 24, 2009
Today is Friday, the prayer day. We don’t have elective procedure done. We have a rest day after the morning ward round. I have some reading at guest house. Between 11am to 2pm is the prayer hour. We are not allowed to go out except for emergency. I...
Apr 23, 2009
It’s my first day in the hospital. It is not busy, only around ten patients with two operations done. But I need to make a difficult decision. There was a 100yrs old man, bed bounded, admitted 3 days ago with infected, gangrene left foot. It is so...
Apr 22, 2009
It took us around 8 hours to go from Sanaa to Al Tahl. We started early because we need to get to our destination before sunset. We had to avoid a direct route of around 3 hours journey as there are different tribes activities with number of...