Where Will You Make a Difference?
25 Sep 2012
Joseph Piper, a medical student recently returned from an elective in Kagando Hospital, Uganda, knew that his elective would be different from what he was used to, but had no idea that he would be faced with preventing Cholera spread with nothing more than soap.
There was a 51 year old man came with diarrhoea and an unrecordable blood pressure, which I diagnosed as our first adult case of cholera. Unfortunately, the isolation ward had no nurses, the side room was occupied with a complex case of HIV and pulmonary TB, so all I could do was buy 5 bars of soap, and give one each to the patient, his attendant and the communal sinks. I then asked everyone to keep washing their hands, and fortunately cholera did not spread around the ward.
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