Back home
It's definitely weird to be back. We got back to the Boston at around midnight on Monday going into Tuesday and are all trying to get back into the flow of life at Children's. I visited some of the team members up on the Cardiac ICU yesterday and was immediately struck by the technology that surrounds our patients and staff at every turn. In some cases, tiny babies are supported by machines dozens of times their size.
It was all such a change from Komfo Anokye, where the equipment is dwarfed by the size, scope and reality of the clinical decisions that need to made given the limitations of the medical system in Ghana.
There's a huge amount of work to be done in Kumsai, but there's a commitment from all involved to make it successful, to someday make it possible for a child born in Ghana with a heart condition to be operated on by Ghanaian surgeons and cared for by Ghanaian doctors and nurses in a Ghanaian hospital equipped to fully support them.
Thanks to all who followed our progress while we were in Ghana and wrote comments. It was an absolutely amazing experience - one I'll never forget and one that has changed forever how I think of medical missions and the poeple who undertake them.
- Matt Cyr
