Wednesday' Info

Hello again...thiswill be a reletively short blog on yesterday's activities...we started with a pretty good breakfast of boiled eggs and french toast(and coffee). We went to the UCC Hospital where protocols states that you must be given permission to enter the premises by the nurse manager. He met with us(he knew we were coming)and said that he really needed a letter from Janet's boss before he could let us in to see the hospital (everything is very political). SO we left that facility and went to the UCC International Center where we met some very nice people and had a very long conversation about payment(changing US dollars for Cedis,and what the payment should be. We decided that we would do the conversion later and let them know the amount we came up with. We then went back to the Cape Coast open markets where it felt like 100F with a 99% humidity and shopped. We also exchanged more of our American $$ for cedis. Then we went back to campus and met with the 400 level students and answered questions for an hour and a half about our perceptions of nursing,the Ghanaian American health care system,what the students can do if they wanted to get into the States to get a masters or doctoral degree,etc. Finally, we met Dr. Mate Siawka and friends at his home for a catered dinner. Dinner was at 6:30 and he arrived at 7:15...but all of his guests were there. He also had some pretty good juices that he had made and wanted to share. I hope to blog more later today on today's activities...we went to the Edumfa Spiritual Revival and Healing Camp today. It was interesting and somewhat disconcerting. There are no real privacy and confidentiality statutes or laws here so there is no real protection of health information. More later...