{"id":2230,"date":"2017-05-22T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soddo.org\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2017-10-05T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T17:00:57","slug":"our-pediatric-ward-is-crowded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soddo.org\/am\/our-pediatric-ward-is-crowded\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Pediatric ward is crowded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65585 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soddo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peds-ward-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.soddo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peds-ward-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.soddo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peds-ward-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.soddo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peds-ward.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2231 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soddo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ped-ward-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/>This week, I was amazed at how crowded the hospital grounds are.\u00a0 I quickly learned that families stay on the property when their loved ones are hospitalized.\u00a0 When all beds are filled, which is a common occurrence, some sick and injured patients stay in the yard waiting for a vacancy.\u00a0 Families huddle together, sleep under a tree or under the shelter of overhangs with few complaints.\u00a0 Above, is the pediatric ward, which is one large room with multiple beds.\u00a0 It is not uncommon to see family members share a bed or sleep on the ground next to the hospital bed.\u00a0 For those who have not been here, imagine 6 hospital beds and 6 families, sharing one large room.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we took care of a 4 year old child who had fallen from a mango tree, had an open distal radius and ulna fracture with the radius coming out of the skin.\u00a0 There was mud and grass on the visible end of the bone coming through the skin.\u00a0 We were able to take the patient to the operating room, remove the debris and mud, reduce the fracture and pin it back into place.\u00a0 Dilute bleach is used as irrigation in the operating room, and almost every patient\u2019s wounds are cleaned with dilute bleach daily while they are in the hospital.\u00a0 It has proven to be extremely effective.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to UCLA and OIC to have had the opportunity to come visit and help in Ethiopia, and look forward to another exciting week!<\/p>\n<p>Would you consider a gift to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soddo.org\/am\/donate\/\">Benevolence Fund <\/a>to help our poorest patients?<\/p>\n<p><em>These notes and photos were provided by:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&gt; Ed Cheung<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&gt; UCLA Orthopaedic Surgery<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I was amazed at how crowded the hospital grounds are.\u00a0 I quickly learned that families stay on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,74,76,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-medical-care","category-fundraising","category-patient-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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