In the hospital this afternoon

When we woke up this morning, it was cloudy. Luckily, it cleared up later.

Some time after breakfast, we were walking to the city centre and in particular the newest Nakumatt. Nakumatt is a store where you can buy food and also other stuff for the home. The other Nakumatt is open 24/7, but this one closes in the evening.

Because being Boxing Day, there were less traffic and also less people in town. But still quite many according to Norwegian standard.

In the same building where the newest Nakumatt is located, there is also a pizza restaurant. Finding pizza in Eldoret is not easy. So the tempation was too big, we had to try.

In most restaurants, you will not get 0.5 litre soft drink  -  only 0.33 litre. In most restaurants (and shops), you don't even get Pepsi Max or Cola Zero or any other sugarfree soft drink. But here, they had both sugarfree and 0.5 litre. It cost about 5 kroner each bottle. When you buy it in those few shops that have it, it costs 4 kroner for 0.5 litre.

There are not many white people to see in Eldoret. But whenever you see any, you see them in or outside this Nakumatt. Most of them seem to be residents for shorter or longer periods.

The pizza was good, with beef, chicken and lamb meat. We paid about 60 kroner for this large size pizza.

Sharon has a friend who is a nurse. Later in the afternoon, we got a tour inside the hospital where she works. The private part of this hospital is actually the exact same building where Sharon was born!

Sharon's friend now works in the private part. Before, she was working in the public part. It is obviously better to work in the private part. It was interesting to be shown around a bit, both in the private and in the public part of the hospital. There have been periods where there have been so many patients in the public part of the hospital that three patients had to share the same bed!!!

One of the differences between hospitals in Kenya and Norway, is that people go to the hospital when they are sick in Kenya  -  not to their doctor or "Legevakten", like we do in Norway. Even if you just have a cold, you go to the hospital. And you may bring some friends or relatives to join you while waiting to be attended. Therefore, the corridors in the public part of the hospital were quite full of people sitting waiting.

One part of the hospital and the outside area gave Sharon bad memories. During the clashes after the last presidential election, she was working in connection with the Kenyan Red Cross. They had tents outside the hospital and were co-operating with doctors in the hospital. She and others in the Red Cross were receiving victims of the clashes, individuals with terrible injuries on their bodies.