TBC #2 Maternity Building

View of the Maternity Building, with the adjacent buildings - the one in the foreground is shorter but in better shape and is our present Clinic building. The longer one has been for storage, but we've just repaired the inside and painted, and it will be in use by October as a place for our health worker-trainees to learn patient care.

Now we'll move to the inside of the building. I hope you have the architectural plan I sent. Perhaps I only sent that to you, Jon... if that's the case, can you copy to the others? Thanks...
The main part of the building is for maternity patients: a ward, labor, and delivery area. On the far end is the lab; on the near end is the operating 'theatre' (or as we would say, the OR).

First, pictures of the inside after plastering of the red-brick (locally burned brick) walls.

The windows were trucked down from Khartoum, 500 difficult miles to the North. The interior picture is taken from near the main door, close to where Lemam was standing in the earlier post. I am looking to the left inside that entrance, through what will be swinging double doors. The doors were made by the June team from Scotland; nice hinges we brought from the US. The first room is the delivery room which will hold 3 delivery beds: We'll install a wall-mounted sink and plumb that one and another six or seven of those throughout the building. The farther room also will have swinging double doors, and is an operating room. More pics to come... here's Rob with Kevin, making plans.

The building in the background here on our base is a 'kitchen', and the round grass-walled structure to the left is a place for taking a bucket-bath (some people would rather do that, than use the overhead bucket shower). I recommend the overhead bucket, at night under the stars, but 'we aims to please!'

On the weekends, we'll have opportunity to walk or take the quad bikes and motorcycle out to villages - here's a recent picture from Gasmalla, a village 4 miles from Doro with a typical thatch-roof church and a wonderful group of believers.

That's it for now... In Christ, Rob