Cholera update, by the numbers, written on 23 November on the UN helicopter ride back to PaP from up north

Approximate numbers for the past 48 hours:

3 successful I/Os with 16 gauge IV/admix needles

1 unsuccessful code on a man who'd ingested an unknown poison

20 kids de-wormed (after seeing a few 5 inch or longer worms come out of kids butts, they all got a weight-based dose of pierazine)

about 100 patients seen/treated

and for almost 7 hours Terry and myself were the only providers and our 3 teenage translators and 1 lab tech were our junior nurses.

NO CHOLERA DEATHS ON OUR WATCH (though there are at least 3 children who would have died had we not been there)

~PJ