Hi All, we’re back in Tegus to regroup for a day – head out on the road again morning early. This past couple weeks we’ve been wandering the north/Caribbean coast of Honduras, visiting hospitals and public health clinics, Garifuna communities, other NGOs and people living with HIV. It’s been fascinating, exhausting and
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Dora the Explorer Returns to Honduras!
Hi All, I’m in the midst of a 2 month mission with MSF/Doctors Without Borders to explore the health situation all over Honduras. With my partner Edgardo (who I met in Uganda in 2006!) and a driver, we’re visiting all of the hospitals in the country, some smaller health centers, community
Save the Date: Saturday May 30!
Posted on March 26, 2015 by Emily Scott Transitioning to home life has been a bit strange. In my heart, I wasn’t ready to leave Sierra Leone. I wish I could still be there doing good work, falling exhausted into bed each night and looking forward to helping my patients again the next
Home and Healthy
Posted on March 23, 2015 by Emily Scott As some of you already know, I arrived home in Seattle a few days ago. It is a bit earlier than I was planning on leaving Sierra Leone, which is deeply disappointing to me. Since one of our PIH colleagues tested positive for Ebola, I’ve
Aminata and Baby Boy
by Emily Scott Written Friday March 6 On the day Abass died, I was on my way back to Freetown where I have been assigned to work at the holding center for pregnant women for the rest of my time here. Let me explain what that means: With limited resources, it
Abass’s Smile
by Emily Scott I arrived for my evening shift at Maforki on Monday anxious to hear how my patients had fared since I’d last seen them 24 hours before. I expected (and part of me hoped) to hear that Foday had passed away and was no longer suffering. No one I
Foday and Abass
Posted on March 2, 2015 by Emily Scott Written Sunday 3/1 The only word I have been able to find to describe this experience so far is surreal. Today it became real for me. Today was our first day actually treating patients in Maforki, PIH’s Ebola Treatment Unit. Yesterday we set foot there
Trained and Ready
Written Friday 2/27 Those of you who know me know that I’m always freezing; in the middle of the summer you’ll still likely find me curled up by the fireplace. So maybe I have the ideal constitution for working in an ETU. On Thursday and Friday we donned full PPE and trained in the
Stairway Troll
Written Wendesday, 2/25 I am currently taking up residence on the stairway landing between the third and fourth floors of our guest house, where the wifi has been most reliably good today. It’s a nice way to meet all the PIH-ers I don’t know yet, as they pass me on