Tough day today. Visited the surgical casualty room, where I saw some extreme cases. Three accidents involving boda bodas, the local motorcycle taxis. I stitched up the one of them, who had been hit in the face by a bus and brought in by a random stranger who had found her on the street.
Even before I got here I had been advised to not take the boda bodas, and I don't think I would have either. After this here though, there's not a chance that I'm getting on one of those death machines. Unverified rumors state that 90% of all traffic accidents here are boda boda related, and I'm leaning towards believing them. These three accidents that I was telling about? They came within my first twenty minutes of being there.
I saw a bunch of others as well, but I'll spare you the details. Suffices to say that things can be distressingly different here to conditions back at home.
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Yeah, it's also difficult when you see the vehicle accidents on the roads....hard because no one reacts like anything unusual has happened....there's no (or little) sense of crisis around major injuries because they're so common. My friends who take boda bodas all offer the driver extra cash if he drives slowly and carefully...I prefer to take my chances walking!
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