supplies

I’ve never had so much trouble helping out…for the last month or so while helping to make patient files at the hospital it has been one obstacle after another…and I told Rebecca I would take care of it—well, try at least which I have done. So I noticed that we were getting low on folders…and they have to be printed in Lilongwe…of course I don’t know what is involved in the actual ordering…it has to go through the accounts office and someone else has to check it and there has to be a price estimate (can’t imagine it is that different from the last time we ordered) and then you have to wait on the printer…before we actually ran out of folders though the copy machine ran out of toner (no ink=no copies) so we had none of the requisite papers to go into the folders…this includes a chart to note medication (needed and given) and observation chart (with vital signs) and the admission history sheet…we made due with what we did have and just added blank papers for the rest…but that ordering was the same rigamarole…plus the hesitancy to buy any because it is quite expensive here and there was someone coming from abroad soon who was bringing some…but he didn’t…so then we got toner…and we were out of the clasps that hold the folders together…and then out of staples that hold the half sheet pockets we put in the back for all the small papers (lab reports, xray requests, etc)…but now we are all back on track again…
Now I’m on a mission for scratch paper that I cut in half to use for those pockets…I use quite a bit from the school—copies gone wrong and such…much better than using plain white paper that would be so useful as copy paper…