Location:Moshopa Health Post
Mahalapye Sub District
Republic of Botswana
What you are seeing is the pharmacy for a public healh post in a village that has no more than 1,000 residents. The clinic that I worked at oversaw this and several other health posts in the area. Think of it as a minor emergency clinic. Here you can acess (for free) wound care, basic drugs- antibiotics, anelgesics, antihypertensives, vaccines, pre and post natal care, for non emergenccy cases you can schedule an appointment with the doctor when he comes (about one every three weeks), for more serious cases we have an ambulance with a nurse and driver on call. For ease of distribution the drugs are prepackeged in plastic bags and set in the trays on the top shelf (we do this when nobody is at the clinic so that when patients come we can get them in and out faster). The middle shelf has containers of basic oral drugs- pills for adults and liquids for the kids.
