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We are 5 students from UPC and we are part of an association from our university called AUCOOP. This summer we are going to Sierra Leone, to Saint John of God's hospital, to bring them some help in improving their internet networks and their softwares.

Our main goals are:


→ Install an internet network in different placements of the hospital where it's much needed.

→ Install two new softwares, one in their nursing school and other in the hospital.

→ Teach the administrators in using those new installed softwares.

→ Draw a plane of all the buildings of the hospital, with a proper scale, to make easier the planning of future projects.

→ Diagnose other problems that can be solved in future trips there.


In this blog we will be posting updates of our project and our experience in Sierra Leone and in some way we will try to approach to you the culture and situation of that country and its people.


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Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Planning connections

Today, after our yoga and running routine, we have started working. First we have made a quick visit to the hospital to know the local people who will help us while working. Then, we have divided into two groups and while two of us were making measures of the buildings, the other two have started diagnosing and solving the IT problems of the hospital and using the tips that we learned in the courses organized by AUCOOP.

          

After that, before having lunch, we went to visit the buildings that were constructed during the crisis of the Ebola, a mortuary, a crematory and an isolation building. It's very impressive to see where the infected or maybe infected people were placed. They put everyone in the same building so, if you were not infected and you only had fever for another reason you would, for sure, get infected. Here you can see one photo of the building with a fence to avoid the contact of the infected with the outside.



After having lunch we worked a little more, ones with more luck than the others: Quim was trying to take a measure and, even thought he was advised by a local to be careful, he put his feet in a septic while he was trying to understand the advice. He strongly hopes that his luck will change but as we know, "he has come here to play".

Lately, after a cold beer, we have gone for a walk to see and try to snap the sunset, and we have been invited to a football match for tomorrow.


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