The
Trust had a problem finding the
next hospital when it was at Dudesti so the Trust
decided to stay at Dudesti for a few days until we found a suitable
hospital to help. Finding Tándárei in the first day was
lucky, and we arranged to move there the next day. The director of
Dudesti insisted that the Trust
stay at his hospital, as we already knew all the staff and Tándárei
did not have an interpreter. We happily accepted his offer as it was a
very generous one, even though the Trust
had nothing more to give him or his hospital.
As with most of the places in România,
trees are used a lot, mostly for shade. Here I am outside the hospital
offices with
the director and the financial manager. They made me very welcome and
were pleased to have help, which you can tell by their attitude. This is
not so in many places I have visited, but the
Trust has been lucky with the
hospitals it has chosen to help. There were several hospitals the
Trust declined to help due to the
attitude of the director. I have found it difficult to help struggling
hospitals with directors who dress in expensive clothes!!
The Trust
inspected the hospital with the director and his staff, along with Jan
from Dudesti, who translated for us. The lights, fitments, and tools
needed for the work were unloaded from 
the
trailer and left at the hospital. This was a large general hospital with
many wards, and you can see, as usual, the conditions were not good. It
is now the practise of the Trust to
inspect each hospital and decide, with the director, what lights they
need. The director then has to sign a contract before the work can
begin. This contract is between the Trust
and the hospital and states, among others, that the hospital will give
accommodating to the Trust, along
with an interpreter, and will not remove any aid given without the
written permission of the Trust.
The last condition is the most important one, stating that if any of the
conditions in the contract are broken the Trust
will remove all the aid given and report the problem to the Ministry of
Health in Bucuresti.
This
is the operating room of the hospital and although they had large lights
for operating, they only had light bulbs to light up the rest of the
room. This meant that the nurses had to work in poorly lit conditions
when the surgeons were operating. You can see the condition of the
equipment they have to work with and what very little they have.
Many
of the rooms, including the operating rooms, had the strip lights fitted
to the walls. We spoke to the surgeons and operating staff about the
conditions they have to work in. They did say that one of their problems
is not only having enough light to do their work, but a good quality
light that did not give shadows or a harsh glare.
Although
the hospitals receive little money they are sometimes able to improve
the buildings. This one was being rebuilt when the
Trust was there. It's a long slow
process, the work proceeding only when the money is there. Sometimes
this work takes years to finish.
The
local paper in Tándárei became interested in the work the
Trust was doing at the hospital.
They spoke to the director of the hospital who gave them a story, which
the Trust found out about on our
second visit. It was nice to have humanitarian work recognized by the
local community.
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