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A glimpse of Kudjip

Dr. Erin Meier lives and works at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital. She has served there for over 6 years, and writes a fantastic blog, which I have been subscribed to - learning much about the life and work I will have in our coming year in Missions. The following is her most recent posting - quite moving. http://erininpng.blogspot.com/ A light in the darkness At the end of clinic, the ER nurses asked me to see a 7 yo boy who was previously healthy and now wasn't responding.  A quick history and physical led me to believe he was sick from cyanide poisoning.  I quickly gave him the cyanide antidote and within 5 minutes he opened his eyes and was moving around.  Within 30 minutes he was sitting up eating.  Later that night, I was called to the ER for an unconscious patient.  When I arrived, I found a man who only complained of a headache that morning, and now was unconscious after a seizure.  Further examination determined he had suffered a stroke, an...