Medical Team Finds a Single Box on the Shelf

    It is probably impossible to explain what it is like to walk into a hospital, go to the pharmacy storeroom, and see a single box of gauze on the shelf. That is all. One box. Oh, wait a minute. There is a Band-Aid near the box. Now that is all. One box of gauze and one Band-Aid. And they do surgery in this hospital? It is a rural hospital in Malawi and it is the only hospital for thousands of people. And they have one Band-Aid and one box of gauze . Sorry for repeating myself so much but I can’t get over it. I have never seen anything like it anywhere in America. What would it be like to walk into a large metropolitan hospital and learn that they only have one Band-Aid and one box of gauze ? That day I was afraid to walk over and look more closely at the box. Perhaps the gauze was gone and the box was empty. Or perhaps it all was all outdated and not able to be used. I just can’t get over it. A hospital with only one box of gauze and a single Band-Aid!