Today it is the last day of work in Chaaria
for Jonah Gitobu, our senior clinical officer in charge of the male ward and of
the diabetic clinic.
Jonah has been employed by the County
Government and he is to report on Monday in a facility located near the Meru
National Park.
The loss of Jonah is really a big one for
the hospital: he was so good and upright as a person, so knowledgeable and
skillful as a clinician, that we will really miss him much.
Jonah had also special training in diabetes
and he was following our outpatient-clinics for that condition. Ireen will now
take over, but we will feel the absence of Jonah.
On top of that he has been so good in
managing the inpatients department, that for me he was like a medical officer…many
times I was the one asking him advice on some medical conditions.
We will miss him even in the outpatients
where he was of great help either for nurses or for other clinical officers or
for Dr Khadija and me.
To replace him, the management committee
has called Erick Kebira, a clinical officer we know very well because he has
been here for internship in the past. He has already reported on duty 2 days
ago.
From the hospital’s point of view the
departure of Jonah is a disaster, but we know he will find new occasions of
professional improvement, and therefore we wish him all the best.
Surely it is bad for us to see the
continuous turn-over of our staff, above all when they have become expert and
trustworthy: it is like we are always to start from scratch again and again.
You train people, you send them for courses and seminars, you give them growing
responsibilities…then, suddenly they go and you feel discouraged because you
must train a new one again, expecting that even him/her will go after some
time. But what to say: that is life!
The new in-charge of the male ward will be
Monicah, and we wish her a very nice start in the new post. Erick is for now
posted in the out-patient department: also to him we wish all the best and we
hope he will like Chaaria, as much as he did when he was a student.
Bro Dr Beppe Gaido
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