JUMA, AGE 3, IN HOSPITAL WITH SEVERE MALARIA Received a 3pm call on Tues­day after­noon from House Moth­er Gil­da say­ing I was need­ed imme­di­ate­ly. Juma’s tem­per­a­ture was ris­ing after his first malar­ia tablets! This is NOT nor­mal, as he received his first treat­ment ear­ly that morn­ing, and had been eating/drinking, but was sleep­ing a lot. Anna, the Children’s Direc­tor and I rushed him to the hos­pi­tal, as his tem­per­a­ture was going UP even after anti-fever med­ica­tions. Very strange indeed! His fin­ger stick malar­ia test at the hos­pi­tal was POSITIVE WITHIN 30 SECONDS! Nor­mal test time is 15 min­utes, so we all knew he had a strong case of malaria.

Juma doing real­ly great on day 3 of malar­ia treatment.

An IV was start­ed and med­i­cines giv­en to com­bat his fever and the malar­ia. Our Fos­ter Moth­er, Joan­na, arrived to sup­port Juma’s Fos­ter Moth­er, Beni­di­ta. After 3 days in hos­pi­tal, Juma’s lab test is neg­a­tive for malar­ia, PTL! But they request­ed to keep him anoth­er 24 hours for obser­va­tion just in case.   All our 60 chil­dren have mos­qui­to nets, but it only takes one mozzy to bite you when you go out­side of your net. WE GIVE THANKS FOR JUMA’S RAPID RECOVERY.   MORE BABIES FOR US–IT NEVER STOPS!  This lit­tle boy is 2.5 months old, and only weighs 3kg/6.6lbs. The moth­er has no breast milk, so the nutri­tion­al Dr. referred her to our Infant For­mu­la Pro­gram on Wednesday.

Direc­tor Anna on right, about to teach this moth­er how to bot­tle feed her lit­tle boy.

Children’s Direc­tor, Anna, taught her how to mix the infant for­mu­la, and request­ed her to return for offi­cial weigh-in on Thurs­day. This gives us a chance to see how well she is doing at clean­ing the bot­tle and mix­ing the milk. The boy’s father was at home watch­ing over the oth­er lit­tle chil­dren they have. Nice to see a father in the pic­ture on this one. Bless­ings,  BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF