OCTOBER 7, 2013

It's Monday and the last three days have seen 3 groups of team members arrive in Kigali. Boxes have been unpacked, telephones programed and passed out to all team members. The ICU, pharmacy and OR are arranged, equipment working, organized and set up. Yesterday, our film crew of Sandy Konyu and Dawn Worrall went to one of the patient's house to begin filming for our future documentary. Everyone is excited that the patient, Clementine allowed them to go to her home, ask probing questions and continue to film her through surgery and follow-up. All parties involved are excited about this opportunity The OR has 2 surgeries planned for today. The first one was completed by 11:30 am and had gone well. The ICU nurses were anxiously awaiting their first patient. The second surgery will be Clementine. The medical team is happy to be here and ready to put their dedication of helping others to work. Here are some of the pictures of the first few days, including one of sunset over the North Pole, taken from the airplane.