It has taken me quite a while to update the blog since we just returned from Lusaka, where there was no internet! But, hopefully by tonight, it will be updated all the way up until the present date! :)
A couple weeks ago we drove two hours away and visited a mission hospital in Chikali, Zambia. The Hospital appeared out of nowhere....after driving along a bumpy, dirt road for approximately 1 hour, small houses and huts began to appear. The Hospital was directly around the corner from the small houses. The hospital in Chikali was one of the nicest hospitals that I have seen so far in Zambia. We all took a quick tour and then left the hospital to meet a traditional healer in a nearby village. We took a small bus to the village and the roads became extremely narrow. The road was tremendously bumpy and the trees screeched as their branches scraped alongside the windows of our bus. It was a lot of fun to witness the bus driver's ability to maneuver throu
gh the narrow and winding path!
We talked for about an hour with the traditional healer and learned about all of the types of healers and the physical treatment that they provide for the villagers. The traditional healer let us take turns and ask him questions, so I asked him how many traditional healers live in Zambia. He said that there are nearly 465 traditional healers within the southern province only! That number was extremely hard to comprehend, especially because there is such a shortage of orthodox doctors in the southern province. The traditional healer shared some of his experiences with us and then showed us his hut, which was full of various herbs and medicines. Since there was a long drive home, we left immediately after our question and answer session and boarded the bus to drive back to the compound.
A couple weeks ago we drove two hours away and visited a mission hospital in Chikali, Zambia. The Hospital appeared out of nowhere....after driving along a bumpy, dirt road for approximately 1 hour, small houses and huts began to appear. The Hospital was directly around the corner from the small houses. The hospital in Chikali was one of the nicest hospitals that I have seen so far in Zambia. We all took a quick tour and then left the hospital to meet a traditional healer in a nearby village. We took a small bus to the village and the roads became extremely narrow. The road was tremendously bumpy and the trees screeched as their branches scraped alongside the windows of our bus. It was a lot of fun to witness the bus driver's ability to maneuver throu
gh the narrow and winding path!We talked for about an hour with the traditional healer and learned about all of the types of healers and the physical treatment that they provide for the villagers. The traditional healer let us take turns and ask him questions, so I asked him how many traditional healers live in Zambia. He said that there are nearly 465 traditional healers within the southern province only! That number was extremely hard to comprehend, especially because there is such a shortage of orthodox doctors in the southern province. The traditional healer shared some of his experiences with us and then showed us his hut, which was full of various herbs and medicines. Since there was a long drive home, we left immediately after our question and answer session and boarded the bus to drive back to the compound.
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