HOSPITAL

We visited the Military Hospital today. This is the only photo. It is in the middle of a military base. The narrow halls were dark and  dirty, the rooms, cramped and crowded. The patients, mostly women and children, sat on the concrete floors, in the entryway, and in a large area resembling a poorly lit underground parking lot, where a single table with an attendant who appeared to be an intake nurse was sitting. Outside in a dirt courtyard, shaded by a single tree, pregnant women and family members lay on blankets in its shade, awaiting delivery in the rooms bordering the courtyard. As we were in the blue truck, about to leave, a man hailed us from the window and signaled us inside. We spent a delight few minutes visiting with the hospital chief administrator, and heart specialist, and gave him a book of Mormon and Joseph Smith, and Family brochure. The base is a complete village with housing for high and low officers in housing meriting their high or low status. It was a very instructive experience.