
Below is a blog update from Brett and Sheri McLean living and working in Mali. There are some great things happening in Mali, which you all have played a critical part of. You can see the oxygen concentrators you donated helping to save children’s lives in one of the posts below! Nevertheless, there is still much to do and much to continue praying for… please keep Brett, Sheri and their children in your prayers as they seek to shine the love of Jesus in the Bako Region through the use of their skills as medical professionals.
The rain and humidity are now gone, and we are entering into the ācoolā season. A good rainy season is essential to survival here as Malians are dependent on the grain that grows to provide enough food for the entire year. Personally, our family loves the rain. Our boys love to run out and play much like American kids do in the snow.Ā When they come back in, we enjoy mugs of hot chocolate because itās so ācold.ā āŗĀ
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While there is much to enjoy with the rain, it can cause great destruction. Many roads are impassable for months, and for those in the ābushā, travel all but stops. For the sick who do not have a health center nearby, oxen are needed to pull them on wooden carts, as even donkeys do not have enough strength to pull carts through the thick mud and clay. Pictured below is the courtyard in front ofĀ the staff homes at theĀ TatrimaĀ center:


You can see pictures of a village near one of our clinics that also experienced significant flooding on our blog.

IĀ know the kids probably arenāt as excited as we are, but it is thrilling to see them getting their necessary shots and oral polio vaccine!Ā āŗ
OXYGEN
We finally have enough solar and battery power in our centers to run oxygen! All the centers can provide breathing treatments as well as run oxygen for at least a couple of hours before they would need to transfer the patients to our biggest health center which can support 24 hour oxygen for multiple patients. We have trained each center how to use their new oxygen concentrators as well as separate monitors which are necessary to access a patientās need for oxygen and the amount to give.
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