Our afternoon was good.
The 101 class continued their discussions on the importance of proper management of the water treatment system, distribution and continuing the health & hygiene education. It’s really cool how George Appah and Rev Asante are doing the class/discussion. I have only watched them through the window as I don’t want to disturb their karma/rhythm of how they are connecting with the senior staff of the clinic and community leaders.
The 102 class fished up today’s lessons with the adult (future teachers) and the children from the nearby PCG grade school. Tomorrow they will have just the adults. Rose, Regina and Chalmers all say the class went well today. I can tell you that this clinic has probably never heard the singing that the 102 class did today as part of the session. I am sure the sounds from the class healed a lot of those sitting in the hallway waiting for attention.
103 group made stellar progress today under the leadership of Kennedy and “the book”. They have the water board complete and all the plumbing is complete. Michael stepped in and deferred the installation of the pure water tank as it was not up to his standards of pre-installation clean, I.e. from delivery. So the 103s capped off the raw water lines to the clean water lines and spent the last hour and a half today pressure testing the plumbing and the water board. Tomorrow the 103s will clean and set the tank, connect it to the plumbing and start the process of generating pure water.
One of the most interesting things about today is that the general manager of the hospital that the clinic is associated with showed up today for the 101 session (might have been a lecture for those of you who know Rev Asante - Ha!).
The PCG has 5 regional hospitals around Ghana in partnership with the government of Ghana. The government funds the staff of the hospitals and clinics and the PCG operates them. Each of the 5 regional hospitals has about 10 clinics as part of their network (you can do the math on # of clinics). Mr. Alex Kesse is the GM of this regions hospital and clinic network - big job!
Mr. Kesse explained today that the approach is to have the 50+ clinics on the edge of the “hinterland” for exactly what this clinic does, I.e. triage, pre/post natal care, sickness, disease control, and so on. The regional hospitals then act as a level 2 beyond the clinics. The clinics are staffed by a senior physician assistant with a staff of secondary physician assistants, midwives and general staff.
So, Mr. Kesse is here today, tomorrow and Saturday because he sees the clinic’s access to treated water as critical to the overall health of the population - especially those at the highest risk - new barns and seniors.
Have taken a lot of great video and pictures today - the few that I uploaded today took a very very very long time. So when we get back to Accra on Saturday, I will post a montage of pictures from Kwahu Praso. Short of that, go to the first post and grab the GPS coordinates in the post and plug them into Google Maps - that’s us on the edge of the “hinterland”.
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