RN on a Mission writes, “So this is it, this is the day we start running clinics in earnest. Usually we would head out to a village in the morning, set up clinic and work until evening, this morning was slightly different as we had to deal with the immunizations. Immunizations must be kept cold and with the lack of electricity and therefore refrigeration, we had to create a makeshift cooling system. Before leaving Kenya the trip leader bought a “portable” refrigerator that would be powered through the cigarette lighter in the land cruiser (waiting for this to arrive forced us to postpone our flight out of Kenya into Sudan by one day). We also bought a regular styrofoam cooler to keep the immunizations cold during transit and until the refrigerator could be lugged in long enough to be considered the right temperature. However, there is a saying in Africa, “TIA”, definition- “This Is Africa”, meaning- things will never go as planned. Needless to say, the TIA philosophy was in effect and it never did reach the correct temp. We did learn a very important piece of information though, the styrofoam container, filled with ice packs, worked extremely well and was much cheaper, and easier to handle. Having said that though, with the 105+ degree heat and relentless sun, our time was running short and the 1,400 inoculations needed to be given in the next two days.”
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OH, so cool! Thank you for sharing!!!
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