European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Restorers of Hope a amp continued from Page 14 House on the Edge of Oddur and is one of the few structures left undamaged by the fighting. Rooms Are designated for inoculations a private visit with the doctor a place where fresh dressings Are applied a pharmacy and a waiting room. A it Alt sounds very Normal but it is not. The clinic has Walls and a roof but sterile conditions Are nonexistent. Fournier and her colleagues treat everything from Bee sting reactions to tuberculosis. Patients suffer from measles diarrhoea skin rashes and open sores Eye infections malaria chronic respiratory disorders and pneumonia. There Are no wards or Beds for those needing hospitalization. Patients who cannot be released from care Are sent through the Back door to two thatch covered huts with earthen floors that Sene As recovery rooms dehydration centers or whatever is needed at the time. There men women and children of All Ages Fie on blankets animal hides or cardboard. Fournier said the clinic has no lab so diagnoses cannot always be made. Quot if they do not improve with food then we assume they Are suffering from tuberculosis Quot she said. Quot without a Tab we can to patients suffering traumatic injuries Are patched up but must wait deformed until surgical procedures become available or until Safe travel to larger somalian cities is available. One such patient is Liban a boy 14 years old who injured his hand in a nov. 28 grenade explosion. Quot Quot he was our first patient Quot Fournier said Quot he needs amputation surgery but we can t do it Here and there is no Way to get him to a better Hospital. He heeds to go to Bairoa but we done to know if the Road is instead the clinic changes the dressing on the boy s hand gives him medication for the pain and tells him to wait. The mss clinic tries to head off illness and disease at its two feeding centers in Oddur where several thousand children nursing mothers and others especially fragile from starvation and malnutrition receive three High protein meals a Day. Ahamed Farah was headmaster of a Oddur a secondary school before the War. "1 had 700 students Quot he said. Now Farah is director of the mss feeding Center at the school grounds where Quot we Are Home to 1,775 children Quot he feeding Center provides supplemental meals to children who Are. Considered malnourished it their weight is 80 percent of Normal Fournier said. And the children Are treated for parasites Given anti worm Medicine and fed milk biscuits and three bowls of uni mix. A High protein Mush. Quot our situation is improving Quot Farah said. However Fournier said conditions in Oddur remain Quot very fragile. We still need More food and if the general food distribution is not working our program Wilt the volunteers in Oddur treat about 100 patients a Day including this Mother and child. An elderly patient with a respiratory problem awaits care. Aksi 1 a a a a Quot a a a a a it a a a a a. A v a a it sit k Ltd it. 4 v. Or the Oddur clinic s a recovery room has a thatched roof and a dirt floor. Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday january 5, 1993 a
