Health
Contraception by Financial slavery
This week, there was a unique scenario of, a 32-year-old woman who came to the hospital for an elective cesarean section delivery and asked her obstetrician to conduct a permanent family planning method commonly known as Bilateral Tubal Ligation (BTL) during the cesarean delivery. The uncommon social issues that surround the case are that this […]
Tales of Sickle cell Disease in a Northern Uganda children’s ward.
Knowledge is power, and ignorance is not necessarily bliss.
TAKAYASU ARTERITIS IN PREGNANCY
During Med school, we studied about some rare disease. TAKAYASU arteritis happened to be among one of those diseases that kept me thinking. Till during my internship while on night call and a patient came in with everything confusing to me. After reading , investigations and consultations, we came to actually identify the cases as […]
The best Christmas gift. #HealthInsurance
Growing up, I thought health insurance was a way rich people liked to spend their money. Honestly. It always seemed like an unnecessary investment. Yes, it’s an investment. I didn’t fall sick much as a child, neither did people close to me. And so I always thought it was the same for everyone. Even when […]
Memoir of a talented intern doctor……#PUBLISHED 2
Another good project I was part of. Again, thanks to my favourite people who look out for me.
Memoir of an intern doctor…day 261…..quarantine day 5
Woahh, we 5 days in and still kicking. I noticed leaving my room at 10am in the morning kinda shortens the day😂. This day felt abnormally short…..which is a good thing. Me right before I got the sample picked We got our first samples picked for testing today. The test is still as painful as […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…day 257. COVID close contact….Quarantine day 1
Yesterday something very unfortunate happened to me. I’ll tell you about it. Flash back to 23rd March during the early COVID 19 days in Uganda, I was asked to remain in my room ( self quarantine) because I woke up with flu like symptoms, however without a fever. The quarantine was to go on for […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…..day 251
What’s up guys….. Bloggers and loyal followers. My consistency is lacking….I know! I’m undergoing a certain kind if mental fatigue. But I’m well and kicking. Big news, I took a COVID test sometime back last month. Got results 19 days later😂😂😂. 19 days!!!! Mujooga!!!!! Good news is, it was negative test, Although I have a […]
Memoir of an intern doctor…Day 200. My HIV test fever!
Image showing a positive and negative test. (Image got from the internet) Its one thing asking your patients about their HIV status and declaring them serostatus unknown because their last test was over 3 months ago, and its another having to throw the same question to yourself as a health worker. I can confidently declare […]
Memoir of an intern doctor….day 171
I stayed at work for you, please stay at home for me! Remember my post 7 days ago when I said my country had no COVID 19 case? Well, it hit us. We had a case the next 2 days. And two days later, 8 more announced in one day, making matters worse, we have […]