Last Wednesday\u00a0was the first day we met our host families.\u00a0 These families, like the rest of the Zanzibari people, are very welcoming and want us to feel like Zanzibar is our home.\u00a0 We shared Iftar with them and are treated as their own children.\u00a0 Maya happens to have the same host mother as Jasmine, our guide, had the previous summer.\u00a0 Sara is now part of a very large, multigenerational family who live in a three-story home.\u00a0 Maya and Sara live very close to one another in the Vuga section of Stone Town.\u00a0 About ten minutes away, Jared lives in the Kikwajuni region.\u00a0 His host mother is a midwife and works for JHPIEGO, so hopefully she will continue to help us as we learn more about maternal health.<\/p>\n
Thus far, she has told us about some of the problems that prevalent in the local health system.\u00a0 She recalled a story where she was taking care of a woman who came in for an emergency, and in order to treat the woman she had to run to the store and purchase razors with her own money. \u00a0\u00a0She also has noticed that some Zanzibari doctors who are trained very well will leave and practice in a country that pays doctors better.\u00a0 This is an unfortunate trend referred to as \u201cBrain Drain\u201d and takes place in many developing countries.\u00a0 The most shocking story was about the major referral hospital, Mnazi Mmoja.\u00a0 She told us that people would come into the hospital and steal babies until security guards were hired.\u00a0 We are excited to spend more time with our families and become more in touch with the local culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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