Monday, January 18, 2010

Rueben

Yesterday at Mercy Family Church, one of the women from the congregation(she is blind) stood up to tell us news of one of our Mamas, Margaret, whose son Rueben who was burned on Thursday evening.
After the service, many of the church family, along with Detty and myself went with the Mercy Home vehicle to see the boy. Margaret lives in a very small house, with only two chairs, it is about the size of a ensuite bathroom in some of your homes.She has 5 small children, and the husband left. Rueben was lying on a cloth moaning. We prayed and quickly got organized to take him to the hospital in Kitale. Once we got there, a man in a blue shirt assessed him, and steered Margaret into a small room, where they immediately saw he needed to be admitted. The little guy was in so much pain. We quickly went to buy the necessary things, such as rubber gloves, saline solution, cream and injection for pain/infection. NO, the hospital has no drugs or supplies. They had forgotten about the tubing for the IV, but we were fortunate, someone had an extra one, so as soon as we got back to his room, they put the IV in. Margaret will spend the days with him until he recovers, as there is NO nurses, or nurse aides to attend these patients. On the same bed was another boy, who had something wrong, and next to Rueben, sat at least three other small children who were also burned , one in the face, a little girl....heartwrenching to say the least.....
To all bloggers, please pray for Margaret, and Rueben, and all the other little ones who are suffering with burns.

1 comment:

  1. I am very framiliar with Kenyan children burn victims in the hospital (maybe too framiliar), I will definately be keeping Rueben and the others in the hospital in my prayers.

    Em

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