Passing out Christmas gifts in the internal medicine ward Christmas morning.

Today, Monday 12/29, was my first day of work in the pediatric ward. I spent most of my time working with Dr. Bonito (a pediatrician from Burundi) and Paul (a pediatrician from Germany). We saw an incredibly broad range of cases throughout the day....inguinal hernia, multiple children with sickle cell disease, tuberculosis, diarrhea, snake bite, malaria, fever of unknown origin...to name a few. I will start doing pediatric consultations and immunization tours in remote villages starting Wednesday.