Secret Santa Party

Tennis Tournament

Some ladies held a Tennis Tournament at Club Olympique in the first week of December 2008: Muriel, Cynthia, Maria, Janet, Mindy, Taniko, Naana, Amy - most of them are members of the DWG. All of them are 'hot' for tennis and playing together ant two of them leaving soon... Taniko and Janet.

Taniko played the final, with Cynthia, and lost - Maria and Muriel are the winners!!

Computer Classes

One of our many DWG Clubs and Classes are the computer classes offered by Anita Sabot in Point E. The Blogs and Online Contact class just completed their 6 session course. You can see future class details online at...

http://www.sabotsites.com/classes.html

Art Committee

Preparing for Art Show 2009...

DWG Visit to ‘Hôpital Principal de Dakar’

We were 17 women who attended this visit. We were welcomed by the director Colonel Boubacar Wade and his staff in the official “Salle d’honneur’ where he began our tour by a power point presentation.

The hospital started in 1884 after a yellow fever epidemic had killed the staff of the hospital in Gorée and the French had to look for a cleaner and healthier place to build a new hospital. The first buildings, linked to each other by arcades, are still there and form the heart of the hospital, which now covers 6 hectares (14.8 acres) and is bordered by the presidency on one side and the English embassy on the other.

After the introduction Dr. Wade and his staff showed us around and were very proud to show us the very modern MRI scan, the most powerful in Senegal, located in a newly renovated building. The scan is handled by very well-trained personnel, some of them by Siemens.

The hospital renovated another building with plans to have recovery rooms and where extracorporeal dialysis will be possible.

The hospital is very clean, personnel everywhere, in beautiful surroundings: gardens, trees, flowers, all done in an array of beautiful colors because the buildings’ painting is very well done.
The final building toured was the maternity ward (built in 1900) with its premature delivery unit. There were 35 babies in there with the smallest only weighing 800 grams!! And she had a chance to survive… It seems in Paris there are only 3 hospitals that can handle these ‘preemies’ and so all of us were amazed and baffled that these babies could survive in Dakar.

Dr. Wade offered us some juice and a very splendid view of the Plateau from the roof of the maternity, where the wind was blowing and the DWG plate was presented to him.

We were honored by the reception and we were glad to learn that Dakar had more medical possibilities than the Lebanese run hospitals.