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| Africa Mercy (in port, centre of photo) as seen from the balcony of one of the hospitals we are working with |
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| Taking part in a tour of the cleaning/sterilizing area at one of the hospitals |
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| Our two translators, Davy and Henriette, both from Congo |
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| Henriette works with us and assists on the ship in one of the nursing areas |
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| Together with hospital staff and our translators, we scrubbed and did our best to decontaminate the room in which all instruments are cleaned after surgery, heated in a sterilizer and stored in cabinets. The lone sink is also in this room and is where the surgeons scrub in preparation for surgery |
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| Mr. M. has been great to work with. Trained as ward nurses, he and a colleague divide their time between nursing and cleaning/sterilizing instruments |
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| Countertop after some scrubbing. We suggested they separate the room between a "sterile" side and a "contaminated" side so that it would be less likely that dirty and clean instruments would be cross contaminated. They were very open to our suggestions |
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| The "sterile" side of the room. Now instruments can be removed from the sterilizer, placed on the table while cooling and then directly into the storage cabinet |
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