Offsides! No goal.

Taking ear impressions for hearing aids for the children at the School for the Deaf

Nurses taking bilateral impressions quickly in the high tropical temperatures.

We examined 150 children at the Savelugu School for the Deaf and found thirty had stones, wax or foreign bodies in their ear canals.  Most of the children had hearing at birth and subsequently lost it which suggests malaria or its treatment as the cause. While at the school, I watched their co-ed soccer game and when an offside goal was scored with a resulting dispute, I ruled out the goal among cheers and cries of anguish depending on which side one was on.
Among the cases this week were the loss of a twenty year old man who died from septicemia resulting from a tooth infection and a four year old who sustained a ruptured eye globe when he was run over by a motorcycle. The medication necessary for the septicemia from the tooth infection was not locally available;  for the child with the eye injury, I did the best I could, because the ophthalmologist was away in Wa doing cataract surgery for people who are too poor to come to Tamale.