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Mercy Trips Winter 2013 Mission to Uganda. A surgical-medical outreach. The unusual aspect was the visit to the Karamoja warrior trip in Northeastern Uganda.

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Hotel Lobby, the Golf Course Hotel

The Golf Course Hotel

The Golf Course Hotel in Kampala

Setting Up the OR’s

Unpacking supplies for surgery

Setting up and getting organized

Stocking shelves before surgery

..all those instruments!...

Ready to Scrub

The New Nursing School at Kanginima

Patrick and Lab Tech, Kanginima

Our Only Anesthesia Machine, circa 1980

Another OR to be Set up

A malarial spleenectomy

Odd cases from surgery clinic

A new operating room

The recovery ward before patients

The Ward after Surgery

A little malaria?......

Kanginima Hospital

Three docs in a mastectomy

Working on a ganglion wrist cyst

Karamoja interpreters

Karamoja Women Interpreters

The Kids of Karamoja

The Homes of the Karamoja

Thatched Huts and Low Doors

Beads and Togas

The Ladies of Karamoja

Children and Stilt homes

The Vast Land of the Karamoja

Compounds protected from other warriors

Protected by brambles

Front gate to Village

The Ankole Cattle of the Karamoja

Traditional Karamoja dress

Sissiya Falls

Looking over the cliff

I am not scared of heights…

…my mom and dad are moonshiners…

The Still from a distance

The White Nile out of Lake Victoria

The Team at Source of the Nile

The very first island in the Nile

Gandhi wanted his ashes in the headwaters of the Nile

The Team

The warrior team

A completed filtered spring

Filtering a natural spring

Filtering a natural spring

Bone Chip from my leg….

Osteomyelitis with Bone Extrusion

A Keloid Scar

Thousands gather for clinic

Entrepreneurship everywhere

Selling in Bulk

Lunch for 3 dollars, curried goat and rice…

Devotions each Morning

A lone community church

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