Nicholas Comninellis

Broken Zambian Children Smiling Again

I am touched over Kaylene Chlopek’s INMED experience with Dr. Ken Johnson at Choma General Hospital in Zambia: “I was struck with severity of the injuries suffered by the children. Many had fallen out of trees and broken bones. My first week at Choma Hospital, we set and plastered many broken bones, and a number of children we put into traction. Each day when we rounded we had to straighten their legs so that they would heal straight, and each day we left the children crying and pushing us away. In the beginning of the second week, I started noticing the children bravely straightening their own legs, and starting to give us shy smiles. By the third week, their faces would break into bright grins and they would giggle and play with us. It was pure joy to work among the children and to SEE them visibly improve before one’s eyes!”