This man is fortunate to have survived a stabbing following a brutal assault.
Though deep, major vessels were spared and the injuries treatable at the clinic.
The gentleman below however suffered a vicious machete attack when robbers broke into his house. The macerated wound was infected and the underlying bones broken. He had travelled some distance for treatment unable to afford care at the hospital.
Cleaned, the debridement of the wound complete the arm is dressed and follow up arranged, though the arm, and hand will be of little use due to the extent of the trauma, and having presented two weeks after the initial assault, the wound grossly infected and painful.
Humanly and medically speaking these types of patients cause despair,frustration and an inadequate response when complex specialised surgery is required but never an option.
As humans we reach our capacity very quickly in this region, and it is only then that we can lean on the strength that comes from Jesus Christ to love, manage and 'treat the untreatable'.
It is without exaggeration and from the witness of our eyes that we see patients recover who should have died (indeed in our frail faith and frank honesty we expected nothing less), and hope restored to patients who respond to the intimacy of care that comes with wound dressing day in and day out,as the love of Christ is made manifest to them, Praise His Name!
