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Medical / Dental Clinics Morijo 2008
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| Dr. Williams and and Britney Compton work in the Morijo outdoor dental clinic. Together with Dr. Daniel and third year dental student Gilbert, they removed over 400 teeth, placed 10 fillings and scaled 10 patients teeth with the Ultrasonic scaler. |
Cheney Davis, our Nurse Practitioner who works in the Emergency Room of Gwinnett Hospital and Medical Physician Jeannine Wills from California worked together on a severe leg laceration, suturing and bandaging it. Read all about it here. |
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| Medicines are much needed in this part of Kenya. The World Health Organization estimates that there are only 2.2 dentists per 100,000 population in Kenya. The Morijo area has no local dentists. Dr. Williams had made a large dent in the dental disease levels in his teams' seven trips there. |
Molly and Britney perform AIDS testing on each patient before they are seen by the doctors. The test is a 3-minute finger-stick test that yields very accurate results. Patients who tested positive were still treated for their medical conditions but have to go to Nairobi for long term AIDS treatment. |
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| Charity, a dental hygienist from Florida, scales teeth while Gerry, a builder from Sugar Hill UMC, assists. Its a labor of love. |
Cheney and Pam Smith work in the medical clinic and pharmacy to see that the proper medications are prescribed for each need. |
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| This Masai lady had a similar looking swelling as Tabula. But, upon examination, it was not a hard boney tumor but a soft one. This type of tumor is potentially more dangerous and life-threatening. She was sent to the hospital for a biopsy and subsequent treatment in Narok by the local oral surgeon. |
Dr. Jeannine Wills and her assistant Glori Love from California made up an important part of the medical team. In addition to treating the sick and wounded, they prayed for each of their patients to know and receive Jesus Christ as their savior and reported that 100% of them accepted Jesus as Lord! |
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 The lesion is the size of an orange and encompasses the entire palate, all of the upper posterior teeth and the upper jaw. KMO takes on patients like this who cannot be safely treated in the rural settings we work in and pays for their surgery in the more established Kenyan hospitals. |
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Dr. Vincent and Molly Phillips our nurse from Duluth, GA on the KMO team talk about the AIDS testing we did on each patient in Morijo. Dr. Vincent worked with us to help his countrymen in Morijo even though his wife was set do deliver their first baby within the next week. He has been a major part of our medical team on our missions for the past two years. Molly says this was her first trip to Kenya but not her last! She found a home in Masailand. |
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| Dr. Williams and Tabula, our first patient in Morijo in 2001. Her tumor was operated on and 50% of it removed. She was scheduled to have the second surgery in 2006 to complete its removal. Upon arrival at the Kijabe Hospital, there was no ENT surgeon available and she was sent home. Such are the problems in third world hospitals. We hope to find her a place for treatment in Nairobi this year. 2008 update: She was sent to the hospital in 2007 in Nairobi and they did a biopsy, only a biopsy. This year, we have taken even stronger measures to assure that she gets proper medical attention and gets to get a completion of her needed surgery. We will keep everyone posted on her progress. |
Patients wait patiently for their medical and dental treatment by the mission team from KMO. The people of Morijo are much healthier this year than when we first arrived in 2001 in large part because of the efforts of the combined teams from KMO each year. |
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| Morijo Primary School | ||
| Portraits of the Masai | ||
| Medical Case Study in Morijo: Read about it here. |
Serengeti Plains of East Africa: Safari 2001 |
Email us if you would be interested in taking a dental mission trip to Kenya |
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Historically, one out of ten have indicated a decision to receive Christ as a direct result of seeing the "JESUS" film. |
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The 10/40 Window is an area stretching from 10° to 40° north of the equator from West Africa to East Asia. Did you know that 90 percent of all unreached people groups live in this region of the world? The 10/40 Window is identified as having less than 2 percent of their populations as evangelical Christians. |
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Kenya Medical
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For more
information or to send donations to continue God's work: Email Dr. Bill Williams Mail Bill at 200 Johnson Road Suwanee, GA 30024 Email Brad Williams Mail Brad at 5109 Morton Rd New Bern, NC 28562 Home: 252-633-7823 |
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