| Volunteers who have been working on the Ghana | | | | most of the children to come to the two gap |
| medical programme have started to work on an | | | | year students and get checked out. One |
| outreach programme going into the Orphanages | | | | important reason for volunteers carrying out the |
| where volunteers work in and around Cape Coast. | | | | work is to hopefully overcome the fear and |
| Ian Birbeck from the UK office visited the | | | | suspicions some Ghanaians have about going to |
| programme last week; “ It was great to see | | | | hospital. This creates some real problems in the |
| the impact that volunteers were having helping to | | | | hospitals with patients only coming to the doctor |
| clean up wounds and small infections the children | | | | when the condition is really serious. It is hoped |
| had. One of the problems at the orphanages is | | | | that the children will get used to being seen by |
| that basic cuts and injuries are sometimes left | | | | the doctor without too much fear and trepidation. |
| and become infected. The volunteers have made | | | | Already many basic wounds have been tended to |
| a real impact.” | | | | by volunteers. In one case they managed to spot |
| At the OOEIM orphanage outside of Cape Coast | | | | a more serious condition and took the child into |
| Tim Fazio from Australia and Charlotte Friis from | | | | the Central Regional Hospital to get checked out |
| Denmark were working on the project. The | | | | by the experts. |
| reward of a sweet was enough to persuade | | | | |