Update for the Week
This past week, I visited Point G, Cesac, and Gabriel Toure. There is good news for two of the clinics and not so great news for the other. After visiting with Dr. Dao (at Point G), he had reached the maximum capacity of his patients. He was busy at the schedualed meeting (due to unforseen circumstances) and reschedualed for this coming week for inhouse training. At that time, I plan to update his software, and license agreement for LabTracker. Clinic 2, Gabriel Toure. Also good news, Dr. Yousouff Toure has done a meticulous job of maintaing his EMR. As of right now he has over 200 patients. Each of which are entered beautifully into LabTracker. I am throughly impressed. Now the bad news, Cesac has done absolutely nothing. I feel that giving the computer to the Pharmacist was a bad idea. After talking with Malick about this, we’re going to start anew (after we speak to the chief of medicine) and give the computer to a physician to track the patients.
This week, there were 16 CD4 count results that came in to the clinic…as Malick and Daou had each of the patients in the office, I was working simultaneously to get their results into the computer. It worked out extremely well, and I felt very accomplished because approximately 80% of the patients with the most recent test results were patients I had already put into the computer from a few days before. After I finished that, Malick and Daou were pretty incredulous that I had done it that fast! I tried to explain to them that soon they will be able to work just as fast on the computer…but I’m pretty sure a bunch got lost in translation.
Anyway, very successful week at Sikoro for me, and Maddie as well! (I sat in on one of the peer-ed training days.) I’m sad to be leaving, it went by so fast, but definitely motivated to return sometime…with a wider French vocab. perhaps.
Jared Meshekow
Boston University