May News

What a team!

On Sunday 12 May ThembaCare celebrated nurses day – a well deserved day for the angels that care for our children. The day was started with a braai and included some speeches and included time socialising and speeches by nursing sisters.

One of our sisters have resigned due to personal reasons, but we have welcomed a new sister, Sister Mgagamela, with extensive knowledge in paediatrics that she gained while working for 9 years in hospitals abroad.

In this quarter ThembaCare has had 10 new admissions. We are currently looking after 3 high-care children, all needing extra care and support.  It is with joy that we can say most of these 10 children have showed drastic improvement already. One special girl arrived with severe protein malnourishment and a list of other illnesses that made her feel quite miserable. She is already older than a year, but up until recently she was only sitting passively, not being able to bear weight on her legs, not reaching for toys and not making any sounds. Her devoted mother has been staying at ThembaCare almost all the time, giving her little girl all the love she could to help her get better. Since last week the little lady has started making some good improvements. The abscesses on her arm have started clearing and she starting laughing and trying to copy some sounds. It is so rewarding to see this breakthrough in this little girl’s life. She will hopefully be discharged at the end of June, please keep her in your prayers.