Medical Team Finds a Single Box on the Shelf

This One Is Impossible to Explain

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 gauge 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 gauge 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 gauge. 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 gauge? That day I was afraid to walk over and look more closely at the box. Perhaps the gauge 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 Or perhaps it all was all outdated and not able to be used.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 gauge and a single Band-Aid!