{"id":172,"date":"2011-11-25T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.pegasuslectures.com\/shop\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2015-08-24T07:14:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:14:34","slug":"itw-part-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/25\/itw-part-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Ultrasound to Uganda with ITW (Part 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday June 1<sup>st<\/sup> \u2013 Addendum:\u00a0 <\/strong>The story behind Bwindi Community Hospital is very compelling.\u00a0 Dr. Scott Kellerman, a physician from California, founded BCH.\u00a0 After spending some time in the region, Dr Kellerman decided that the community really needed a hospital.\u00a0 He chose a location and decided to buy the land for the hospital he would build.\u00a0 The negotiations started at about $3,000.\u00a0 On the next day, however, they raised the price to $30,000, which was completely out of his price range.\u00a0 Somewhat disheartened, Dr. Kellerman decided to make the most of his stay and set up a temporary clinic.\u00a0 The clinic was seeing patients from the break of dawn to hours after sunset.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter, the village elders convened with the owners of the land.\u00a0 There was long debate and argument, until the chief\u2019s voice silenced them all.\u00a0 The chief then approached Dr. Kellerman and offered the land for $2,500, the exact sum he had in the bank at Kampala.\u00a0 When Dr. Kellerman inquired about the sudden change, the chief responded, \u201cOur children are dying.\u00a0 We need your help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The morning at the hospital starts with prayer and encouraging words.\u00a0 The group from ITW was introduced to the patients and staff, which line the benches.\u00a0 In this picture, Scott is convincing me that I need to stand and say a few words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-173 size-full\" title=\"23\" src=\"http:\/\/test.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/23.jpg 381w, https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/23-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><br \/>\n(Picture courtesy of Alec Jacobson)<\/p>\n<p>I thought I would include a quick movie showing us getting gas.\u00a0 As you can see, when electricity is scarce, just about everything becomes more challenging.\u00a0 You will also get to see what joy lifesavers can bring.\u00a0 <a title=\"See the video clip here.\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/3i8kbUI6Z4Q\" target=\"_blank\">See the video clip here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday June 1st \u2013 Addendum:\u00a0 The story behind Bwindi Community Hospital is very compelling.\u00a0 Dr. Scott Kellerman, a physician from California, founded BCH.\u00a0 After spending some time in the region, Dr Kellerman decided that the community really needed a hospital.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/25\/itw-part-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[11,9,10,2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}