Everything is done with the project I was working on. I was supposed to give a presentation to Ghana Health Service the day I left, but no one from the GHS showed, so I just ended up giving a presentation on my activities for the last 10 months (minus 2 months home) to the nurses from the Center. It went alright except for at the end of the presentation the head nurse asked the other nurses questions about the feasibility of continuing the program and one of the nurses literally woke up from her nap during my presentation (no joke) and said that she thought we were "biting off more than we could chew."
I understand why she says that since its been a lot of work to set the program up, but now all that is left to do (based on the way i designed it) is to give one 2-hour health talk a month, and have 3 days at the Center for training, then just 1 more day in 6 months for re-training of educators. Minus the "trainings" all my program design really does is to just ask the staff to do a teensy bit more (with stipends for their effort) to actualy make sure that existing GHS policies are implemented. Anywho, I'm still pretty confident that this program is totally doable with such little effort on the part of Center staff (with 3 nurses and 2 orderlies and 8 patients a day, typically there is nothing to do at the Center for at least half the day... so why not do some SRH stuff.. and make a little more money..) That as long as people don't just lose momentum and stop caring about health there's no reason for the program NOT to continue.
What I believe will happen, will be that the Center won't do the training until the 2 GlobeMed volunteers arrive in August (so be prepared guys).
