Preparing to return to Rwanda!

  As the last-minute flurry of arrangements takes over, I paused to reflect on the need for these surgical development trips. In the midst of counting chest tubes, suture boxes, pre-travel Covid test, etc. The lists of supplies are long and complex and human resources involve many very giving, talented people.   It is our hope, this trip ignites the flame it takes to move closer a sustainable program and gives our Rwandan colleagues the boost they need.   For us, it is like coming to a home. We each keep saying, we are so very close; closer than we have been at any other time in 14 years. But for those Rwandan colleagues who have given up much to seek training and education, they too are impatient to see the program move forward.     Our goal for this surgical development trip is to increase access for the treatment for those with untreated strep throat in childhood intervention in Rwanda the outcome of untreated strep throat in childhood.   As we pack ...