Gaining interest in the area

We are seeing the need for this medical clinic in so many ways.  Today the District Health Officer came to look at our building and was very excited to see the building and was amazed at our progress.  He was intrigued that Dennis had a line of people waiting to be seen.  As we explained that we purchased the medication out of our own pockets, he assured us that he had medicines available for our clinic.

We have made more progress on the time consuming concrete header beams and got a couple more walls up to their final height.  We are praying that it is in God’s plan to begin the roofing structure on Saturday. 

Dennis saw about 70+ patients today.  Some come for explanation of their illness, others for coughs, fevers, malaria, etc.  It is so difficult for him to see people that should go to a hospital for treatment and all he can do is strongly encourage them to go.  They have a real distrust of the hospital and they know it will cost them money that they don’t have.  It really is a sad situation.  The medications are readily available at the pharmacies in Mityana without a prescription, but these people have no financial resources to buy them.  This medical outreach by the Mityana Baptist Church is such a blessing for so many and we are praying that once the building is ready we can arrange a continual or regular presence of medical personnel, equipment and medicine.

We had a late afternoon rain storm that dumped buckets of rain on us, we all fled into the church for refuge.  Harry and I were swarmed by the kids wanting our attention.  Harry had a group playing the drums and singing and I had a group teaching me Lugandan while I taught them English.  Once it let up the site was too flooded to work so we left at 4:30 PM; very early for Harry, he expects to stay until 6PM no mater what.