Yesterday Kate and I gave a presentaion on cholera to the hospital grand rounds meeting. The room was packed and we stimullated some interesting and controversial conversation. We have been regularaly updated by the allocated choldera doctor in the hospital about numbers of cases and deaths for the purpose of our presentation. Last week, there were 684 cases and 26 nationwide, 99% of cases were within the city of Lilongwe. This week the national case number jumped to 1142, with 39 deaths. This week 80% of cases are in Lilongwe, and other areas have started to become affected. Its all a bit scary. And the terrible lack of organisation and education of the health system was well recognised by the members of our audience during the after-presentation discussion.
Sorry I haven't written on here for ages. Battling with paediatrics (which has to be hell on earth purely due to complete lack of strategy, and then you add all the disease and death) and essay deadlines. Its all in my head, just need the time to write it down.
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