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The Adventures of The Sploop
Dr. Joshua Rosenberg is a Bristish doctor working at Isilimela Hospital in the Eastern Cape. His blog, The Adventures of the Sploop chronicles his professional and personal experiences as he journeys through the ups and downs, the complications and joys of working in a rural hopsital in South Africa.
Here is an excerpt from his blog:
So I think I said that I would talk this time about my experiences with the Metro ambulance service, but this blog is going to be all about an amazing day in South Africa. Yesterday started with little different, apart from the fact that we had run out of muesli so I had an excuse to eat more than my standard 2 Ouma Biscuits (aka Rusks and one of my new favourite things). But then, just as I was nearing the end of a fairly long ward round (it’s even harder when ward rounds are long and you are the person in charge of them) I suddenly heard a load of screaming and shouting. Now the other day when I heard something similar, I discovered that a whole nunnery and a priest had turned up on the ward and were walking down the corridor singing. They then entered one of the ward rooms and started praying like an evangelical TV priest and choir would in what seemed to be an effort to drive the evil (TB) demons out of a dying patient. Eager to not miss out on seeing something similar, I left the round to investigate. I opened the door of the room I was in to find the corridor full of pretty much every nurse in the entire hospital singing and dancing. I soon found out that the hospital choir had won a hospital choir competition at the weekend and were now parading the trophy through the hospital.
