Here is picture of the hospital:
Here are Carol and Chuck talking with the lady in admissions/medical record room. This is also where patients pay their hospital bills. $1.25 U.S. per day. Most cannot afford this amount. The hospital is subsidized by the Free Methodist Church and donations from others.
The hospital pharmacy:

This is the operating room. Frank is removing a malignant tumor from this woman. There is no follow-up treatment in these cases. The cancer is either completely removed by the surgery or it is not.
The hospital kitchen. The kitchen is a covered shelter where family members can cook for their patient.
I asked this lady what she was preparing. It is a gruel of molasses and corn meal. Sounds, like sweet grits!!

I did not take pictures in the wards out of respect for the patients. But it was common to see two people in a bed. The patient and their family member. The family member sleeps with the patient. There is a mens ward. A womens ward. Pediatrics, Obstetrics and of course the roped off areas where patients have such contagious diseases as cholera or meningitis.
Oh, I almost forgot. As I said in the beginning patients who cannot travel by foot, arrive by ambulance. Here is an ambulance transporting a lady to the hospital. Many people travel for hours to get there.

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