måndag 16 augusti 2010

20100811

20100811

The last day of training at the bacteriological laboratory at the University Hospital in Linköping.

I can´t say that I in any way feel ready to start any kind of activity related to bacteria yet.

But after a few contacts with Mike Masona at the Mpongwe Mission Hospital, it seems that that some of the staff is welltrained for this task.

Hope that this is true, I will soon find out as we are leaving for Africa and Mpongwe witin ten days.

But back to the last day of training, I was well taken care of , as always, and had the opportunity to rehearse some of the activities I´ve been doing before, like watching when diagnosis based on different cultures, was made and could also discuss some other possible various interprets of the findings, so hard in some cases.

I also discovered that staffylocockus aureus look different when cultivated on different media.

I had a discussion with the former chief, Lotta , about which discs for resistance-decision, could be the most needed to take with me, in the first place.

She and I decided that it would be useful for me to bring , discs for sensitivitydecision, for stafylocockes and streptocockes, and she even supplied me with a few small capsules for each, thank You Lotta.

Peter Johansson, who has been ever so helpful, helped me to get a few samples for autoclavetests with me.

We must be able to do tests as soon as the autoclave is installed.

A very useful day, structures for thinking might even have established themselves in this for med quite unknown land.

A thank you from my heart to all people at the lab who have helped me to get forward, a very special thank you to Lina Nilsson and Elisabeth Palmquist.

I have ordered a big standard microbiology textbook in English, used in Sweden in the training and education of microbiology analysists, to take with me to Mpongwe.

Our budget is now still Ok and there is still room for some more investments, but that will not be done before we have invented the needs at the hospital.

Carl-Fredriks birthdaycollected money was more than welcome, thank You Carl-Fredrik, You are an angel.

I´ll stop here for today,

Tjingeling Maria

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