{"id":375,"date":"2012-02-03T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.pegasuslectures.com\/shop\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2012-03-07T06:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T11:19:18","slug":"bringing-ultrasound-to-uganda-with-itw-part-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/03\/bringing-ultrasound-to-uganda-with-itw-part-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Ultrasound to Uganda with ITW (Part 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Friday, June 10th<\/sup>:<\/strong>\u00a0 Today we drove to the most remote and\u00a0undeveloped clinic we have seen in Uganda.\u00a0\u00a0It is called Kanyashogye, located in\u00a0a very mountainous region\u00a0within a town called Mpungu. \u00a0I didn\u2019t think it was possible for the roads to get any worse, but I was once again proven wrong!\u00a0 However, the spectacular mountain and valley views afforded by this drive made every bump and compressed vertebrae worth it.<\/p>\n

Driving\u00a0off the \u201cmain road\u201d and down the side road to the clinic, we passed an elementary school.\u00a0 I have never seen so many children running and screaming in excitement.\u00a0 As our van drove\u00a0by, they were all waving and cheering.\u00a0 I guess this is what it feels like to be a rock star.\u00a0 (click here to see Uganda kids running at school<\/a>)<\/p>\n

As we drove down this road we contemplated what would happen if the\u00a0ominous sky decided to open up.\u00a0 The roads were very steep and rutted, indicating areas of washout from previous rain storms.<\/p>\n

This clinic has no power!\u00a0 The grid does not yet exist in this region, and they have not been outfitted with a generator or any solar power.\u00a0 The signal was very weak and for some reason our signal booster is not functioning correctly.\u00a0 At one point, the locals told us that the strongest cell signals would be obtained by standing near a very large tree.\u00a0 They were, not surprisingly, correct.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"While we were there, a large group of men (a few of whom are in the picture) came running down the hill carrying a man on a litter.\u00a0 In\u00a0the absence\u00a0of vehicles to transport too ill patients, these villagers volunteer to carry patients up and down the mountain roads.\u00a0 In this case, they had run about 4 miles carrying this man.\u00a0 Just as they arrived, it began to rain.\u00a0 Immediately, our thoughts went to moving the vehicles as a good solid rain would potentially mean being stranded with no ability to move the vans for days.\u00a0\u00a0We moved them to the top of the hill before the roads became impassable quagmires..<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of our testing, we walked up the hill back to the vans.\u00a0 It was raining quite hard and we didn\u2019t have any rain gear (needless to say we got drenched).\u00a0 We were carrying a fair amount of equipment that we tried to keep dry.\u00a0 By the time we reached the vans, I truly appreciated the feat of the village men, running with a loaded litter.\u00a0 IMPRESSIVE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, June 10th:\u00a0 Today we drove to the most remote and\u00a0undeveloped clinic we have seen in Uganda.\u00a0\u00a0It is called Kanyashogye, located in\u00a0a very mountainous region\u00a0within a town called Mpungu. \u00a0I didn\u2019t think it was possible for the roads to get … Continue reading →<\/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\/375"}],"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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasuslectures.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}