Zimba, Zambia - Week 9

 Hello everybody this is Ty!

This week we all rotated through 12 hour night shift clinicals in the Maternity ward, we delivered a total of 11 babies. Jamie, Claire, Grace and I had a very eventful night delivering 6 babies. Unfortunately, Sophia, Brian, and Ainsley’s group only got to deliver 1. The final group—Kyrah, Ella, Casey, Evyn and Emma—had a night full of power outages, rain and 4 babies.

While the night shift group was sleeping during the day, other groups got the opportunity to go on outreach clinics to different rural areas in Zimba. The first and last groups went to different schools and gave an endless amount of immunizations to the little kids. We also provided prenatal check-ups to pregnant women. They taught the kids games like Limbo, Hopscotch and Duck Duck Goose. My group was not quite as busy, but we got to visit 3 different small sites around the Silverlands Farm—one of the largest farms in the southern district here in Zambia.

On Thursday we experienced some storms that brought heavy rain, so what better way to have fun than to play around in the rain and puddles like little kids again. It was all fun and games until I was maliciously attacked by all of the girls with water and mud. We all ended up being so muddy and dirty that we were using the rainwater runoff from the roof to try and shower ourselves before entering the house.
Overall we had a super busy and eventful week which was a nice change from our typical weekly routine.