N'Torosso

The man with the big smile on his face is Pierre and he is the chief of the N'torosso rural clinic.  He was very happy to receive his very first otoscope for the clinic from Brett.   

Gathered around my Mac to watch a sickle cell video in French.

The literacy rate in Mali is only 17%, so info through hand painted pics seems to be the best way to get the point across.

This is the screening kit that we delivered to each rural clinic.  It included the cards, glove, pens for writing the patient info, lancets for heel sticks, and dessicant bags to keep everything dry in the rainy season.

The remote clinics desperately need solar to provide a reliable source of power for basic medical treatments such as albuterol nebulizers.  Brett is working on a plan to raise funds for solar power to each one of the rural clinics supported by Koutiala.  It will cost around $10,000 per village to accomplish this.
This is what severe reactive airway disease (basically asthma) looks like in the remote villages.  This little girl had a heart rate of 170, could be heard wheezing across the room, and was rail thin from the chronic lung problems.  Brett recently donated a nebulizer for albuterol to this clinic but they had not yet tried it.  She was started on steroids and received albuterol with improvement in her breathing.