Back in the swing: The CO school is full of resolute students that, on graduation, will either return to their home villages to carry on or staff what will soon be 19 out lying clinics in the system. All health care here is administered by the Ministry of Health for the region, ungoverned, as understand it, by either Khartoum or Juba. They are supported by Mother of Mercy, the organization that supports the hospital. When I am here, I represent Catholic Medical Mission Board, an excellent NGO based in NYC that supports maternal-child health. I’m neither Catholic nor a practicing Christian but they are happy to have me represent them and they fund my travel to and from Gidel. So, I travel from home à PDX à NYC à Doha à Nairobi à Juba à Yida à End of the road à Gidel à then a 2 km walk into the bush to the CO school. I am tasked primarily with teaching but am also managing the male ward, so I find myself walking quite a bit and when not sitting in front of my laptop writing discussi...
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Lynne and I spent the holiday season in Louisville where we had the chance to hang with Eli and his family. Amber is now a full professor in pediatrics at U of L, whose interests lie, among other things, with transforming Child Protective Services to just that, a service for the protection and betterment of kids and their parents/caregivers. Notso much a threat but supportive before the fact. Brilliant. Eli has become the recognized area authority on queer health having about 400 patients within the community. That word, "queer", seems odd as in my school yard generation it was highly derogatory. But it has been appropriated and in my mind the word queer seems more inclusive and acknowledges more room for a spectrum than LGBTQIA. I’m back in South Sudan headed to Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains. I have been in the region now 7 (?) times. This time I will be teaching a group of Clinical Officer-Community Outreach students in the basics of history and physical, and neu...