The end

The sun is setting over Kampala as I write this, I am sitting in the hotel garden enjoying a cold beer, and mulling over my visit.

Uganda is a country of contrasts, hot, noisy and dusty. In  Kamapala the streets are a swarming with people, cars and motorbikes. The roads are lined with people living in the most basic accommodation, selling anything and everything to survive. Large houses are visible everywhere, mingling cheek by jowl with these shacks. Poverty along side wealth, modern civilisation along side something more akin to the medieval times. And then there's the depravation we saw in camparingisi and the Alcholi people, a whole different level of poverty and need.

Today I spent time at the Dental school where they teach the three year diploma students (similar to our dental therapists). The staff were charming and proud of their clinics and achievements, but with only 11 students qualifying a year the demand far outstretches the supply.

We need to appreciate what we have, and not to take our medical and dental services for granted.