Hospital

I started at the hospital today. I LOVE IT. I feel much more useful. I gave needles to babies like all day. DPT, measles, and BCG. Obviously, the hospital is no where near the Canadian standards. I saw a nurse sneeze on a needle (like right on the sharp part) and then give it to a baby. She did not wash her hands once. She just hands out needles like randomly with no system for identifying who should have which immunizations. Med-error central. Carol would seriously unleash. The scale for weighing the babies is attached to a rafter in the ceiling with a piece of tattered cloth. Naked baby after naked baby gets into this little piece of material to be weighed (hanging from the ceiling). Half of them can't hold their heads up, so they just kind of flop over. Today alone, 3 babies almost fell. There is also a maternity ward, and the nurse told me I will help her deliver if anyone goes into labour while I'm there.

Tonight I'm making poutine for my host family, this will be interesting lol.

I'm trying to put pictures on facebook now, but these computers are effing slow as hell so we shall see if it works.