Kuluva Hospital

(Pictures include the hospital church, the view from my house, the hospital as seen from a hill and approaching the house I live in)

Kuluva Hospital
Here at Kuluva I live on a large compound up a hill from the hospital. The compound has many trees. So it is easy to find shade from the heat that this part of the country suffers from! It is often possible to find a cooling breeze while the sun beats down merciless from 10am till gone 4pm. And the night does bring coolness, in fact we sleep with blankets! But of course it is nothing compared to the UK winter. I find the cool nights a welcome relief after the heat of the day.

So on this large compound live most of the workers of the hospital and their families, the nursing students, their tutors, then there is the Chaplin and the hospital chapel – Saint Luke's. The hospital is located on one side of the compound and contains patients and all attendants/ relatives who come to help care, cook and feed them. At the entrance to the compound are 4 or so small stalls that sell essentials like eggs, sugar, air time (credit for the phone).... The compound has many rules and regulations ( though I have not actually been told what they all are) but these include no animals and no alcohol. The animals are a saga in themselves as one can find chickens, ducks, goats and straying cows (let in to graze on the untouched grass). The animal rule is really here to improve hygiene, and reduce transmissible diseases that are all to common place here and parasites. However I have been amused to see a stray chicken wandering in and out of the wards. I was trying to work out if it needed treatment or if it was there awaiting to fulfill it's duty – becoming someone's supper! :-) The cows are the ones that are a pain - they take to nibbling any washing left hanging on the washing line! Our clothes have not met such a fate yet – our house keeper leaves them out while she's around but then brings them in before she leaves.