Baby Moses is 5 weeks old and born in Nsovwe village with no birth attendant, on a dirty floor in a hut, no clean water or towels to assist or sooth her delivery! After the excitement of the birth, Gertrude his mother spotted the cleft palate, he has struggled to feed and do she came on a 3 hour boat ride to Mpulungu. The clinic advised she go to Lusaka 1040km away, to UTH which is the only hospital in Zambia able to do the procedure. OM have been working in Nsovwe village for a few years now, knowing we are Christians she came to ask us for assistance. The bus ride return is $60usd and although a Zambian she has never been to the capital before! We helped her get to Lusaka and last week when I was registering the clinic I went to visit her. She was in good spirits and touched that I was visiting. The operation will happen when Moses hits 5kg so in 10 weeks or do after the opp they will return. Moses is being fed via bottled milk as Gertrude is not expressing milk, pray that she starts and that Moses begins to be able to drink her milk.
I hope to see them again in a few weeks on my next trip to Lusaka.
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