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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
Reflections<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
<strong>July</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
Week 4 Reflection<br />
Written by Asima Mian<br />
PGY3 resident, CIFC Health Primary Care Internal<br />
Medicine Residency Program<br />
Highlights<br />
Among the Letters<br />
Reflections<br />
Hispanic and Latinx Voices<br />
Global Local<br />
Art to Remind Us of Who We<br />
Can Be<br />
Our Beautiful Planet<br />
Voices of Ugandan<br />
Students<br />
Nursing Division<br />
Congratulations<br />
Video of the Month<br />
Article of the Month<br />
Calendar<br />
Global Health Family<br />
Photo News<br />
With the global health elective coming to an<br />
end, it’s a very bittersweet moment. I am excited<br />
to go home to my family however I feel as if I’ve<br />
created another family here in the Naggalama<br />
village. The highlight of my last week was when<br />
I got to perform a C section from start to finish.<br />
I performed a few more deliveries and spent<br />
time in the lab looking at malaria and TB under<br />
the microscope. My time in Uganda has been<br />
exceptional, I have learned, seen, and experienced so much that I would<br />
otherwise not be exposed to in the US. One of the biggest challenges I felt was<br />
trying to educate and inform patients about family planning. I treated several<br />
patients with miscarriages and many of these pregnancies were occurring while<br />
they were only 2-3 months postpartum. On my last day at the hospital, I went<br />
to check if there were any deliveries to be expected. A 26-year-old woman,<br />
G3P0 came to the hospital in labor at 39 weeks. I monitored her labor for 8<br />
hours until she finally went into active labor. She was struggling to push with her<br />
contractions due to pain and fatigue. The baby had a nuchal cord seen in the<br />
US and the patient wanted to attempt vaginal delivery. The labor was long and<br />
tiring and she delivered a beautiful baby boy. When I asked her if she thought of<br />
a name she said, “Asim”. I smiled and told her I loved the name since it was the<br />
male version of my name. It was such a coincidence that she named the baby<br />
Asim since she did not know my first name.<br />
Uganda exceeded any expectations I had, I am very happy and grateful to have<br />
had the opportunity to experience the culture and medicine in Uganda. I cannot<br />
wait to go back!<br />
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