This Volunteer teaches public health nursing at the Serabu Hospital, in Sierra Leone. Here she discusses ideas with PCV during and in-country training session on health. She helps the new volunteers in defining objectives and developing steps for...
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Getting the sick to talk is a constant challenge. After months of silence, this patient stopped the Volunteer on her rounds to mutter his first...
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Getting the sick to talk is a constant challenge. This patient stopped her on her rounds and, after months of silence, muttered his first sounds.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse in Pakistan’s largest mental hospital, located in Lahore. Since her arrival many needed reforms have taken place. Here she talks to a male patient.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. With 1,500 patients, this is the largest hospital of any kind in Pakistan.
At an evening meal station, this Peace Corps Volunteer helps patients learn to feed themselves again. The Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she checks one of the evening meal stations – this...
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she visits the hospital bakery to check the day’s output of bread. She has been responsible for a dramatic improvement in the quality of the...
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she goes to the bazaar with a student social worker on the hospital staff.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Since her arrival many needed reforms have taken place. Here she walks arm in arm with a female patient.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she talks to the staff members on the hospital grounds.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she attends one of the morning staff meetings that have been started since her arrival in the hospital.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she talks with an elderly patient who has somehow hurt himself and lies on the grass unable to get up.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. She discovers an elderly patient who had somehow hurt his head and was lying on the grass. She talks to him – he turned out to be quite garrulous...
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. With a student social worker from the hospital she goes into the Lahore bazaar. Here they stop at a yard good store to see about material for new...
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Her calm and friendly manner reassure this shy, mistrustful patient.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she is with one of her patients. He is a gifted writer, and he lets her read a long, rambling letter he has written her.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she jokes with two of the Pakistani nurses on the staff.