Barlad Children's Hospital -- equipment and supplies

The staff at the Barlad Children's Hospital is, almost without exception, very kind and caring, and they work with very limited supplies and outmoded equipment.  They have some strange ideas -- drafts cause fever, that kind of thing -- but they do their best to keep the place clean and comfortable.

Below are some pictures of the rooms and equipment.

"Salon Urgente"

(Intensive Care Unit)

Typical bed in a typical room

Nurses' Station

The babies are fed herbal tea between bottles of formula, if they're

hungry; note that the bottles are glass.  These bottles are only

half-full because they are for Delia Ayana, Gabriela, and Ana Maria,

all newborns

One thing I don't have a picture of is the lunch room.  Mothers generally stay with their children while they are hospitalized, and at mealtime everyone troops down to the ground floor where they are served for lunch and dinner, on a typical day, soup, chicken, mashed potatoes, bread and water.  No special diets; everyone eats the same thing, from what I could see.  The mothers sit at four long tables with their children on their laps and feed them while they chat with the other mothers.  It's really very cozy.