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| Colourful flags - Ethiopia (upper) and Amhara region (lower) |
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Preparing and drinking coffee here involves a "coffee ceremony".
This woman is preparing coffee in the airport in Addis Ababa
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| Having lunch at a roadside restaurant. With the right hand you break off pieces of the sourdough flatbread (called injera), then wrap it around the assortment of items on the platter and scoop it into your mouth. The platter was shared by our driver, Ministry of Health rep who accompanied us and Olive and I |
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| Mixing up a plaster of straw and mud to cake on the walls. The smaller photo shows before and after plastering |
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| Roadside vendor with assorted items |
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Ethiopian "backpacks"
The next series of photos are from our hospital visits in the Amhara region |
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| After surgery, instruments are put through a 3-basin system, first a 10-minute soak in a chlorine bleach solution (no longer recommended by the WHO), washing in soap and water then rinsing in the 3rd bucket. The blue bucket has a lower concentration of bleach and is used as a High Level Disinfectant for items that cannot be put in an autoclave |
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| Washing the instruments in soap and water with a large brush |
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| The room where the instruments are decontaminated, dried, inspected then wrapped prior to sterilization in the autoclave |
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| Floor model autoclave |
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| Tabletop autoclave |
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| A water distiller - autoclaves frequently break down because users do not have access to distilled water (required by all manufacturers) so we were delighted to find a hospital that was able to find a distiller. They have had no problems with their autoclave. |
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| Storage cabinet where instruments are stored prior to surgery |
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| We spent 2 days with staff from our partner agencies, Assist International and Lifebox |
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| Medical staff at two of the hospitals we visited. |
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| Staff were receptive and are eager to work with us |
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