Construction Continues

Training Building

 The construction of the Training Hall and Hostel Hall continues. They are currently working on plastering, installing ceilings, and building the septic systems. The room on the right side of the veranda is the restrooms.


The second picture is inside the training room.
There is a small stage for when the room is used for lecture. The door on the right is an office and audio-visual storage room. The door on the left is a storage room for pumps and large items used in training. There is a door from the pump storage room to outside.

Hostel 

To the left of the building there are two shallow boreholes drilled. We will install broken handpumps in these boreholes and the students will get to fix them. A normal borehole would have 10 pipes or more going down into the water table. Much of the student's time would be removing pipes. These boreholes will have only two pipes down to the pump head and we will manually add water into the pipes. This way the students can practice with out having to the repetitive task of removing the pumps or pulling the rods. We also have one deep borehole over by the Out-Patient Building that they can have the pleasure of lifting out pipes.

Hostel Room

Behind the Training Building is the Hostel Building. The students come from all over Adamawa State and around Nigeria. Some will have traveled several hours to get to Demsa. They will need overnight accommodations when attending classes. The Hostel building has two identical rooms built with entrances on opposite sides of the building. They wanted two buildings, One for men and one for women. However, that would have been too expensive. We compromised by making two rooms. Each room has two bathrooms with showers.


The Health Referral Center Renovations are in Stage 5 of a four stage project. This last stage will be to add items that were not considered in the initial design and make modifications for more efficient operations. They are changing one of the consulting rooms into an X-ray room, Changing tiling up the sides of walls in the delivery rooms, surgery, and sluice (surgical instrument cleaning room) to make theses surfaces easier to maintain. They will also be doing storm water drainage improvements

Incinerator Under Construction

One Stage 5 project is the building of a small waster incinerator. They have hired a local man to build an incinerator like the one at the local government hospital. He does not understand principles of combustion but is making a copy of the one he made at the government hospital. It is not going to be a high temperature incinerator, since it was not made of fire brick, has too small of the stack and no combustion air inlets. It is a typical waste incinerator.

In the future we could line it with firebrick and make other modifications to increase its effectiveness in burning. The second picture show it in relationship the facility. The closet building is the Out-Patient, The In-Patient is in the center of the picture and the side of the Training Hall can be seen on the left.

Incinerator with Out-Patient, In-Patient and Training Hall

The largest item to be added will be to install a culvert or low water crossing at the entrance to from the road that gets washed out during each rainy season. We had hoped that the drainage work being performed further up the hill would the extended to past the entrance and paid for by World Bank Funds. It does not appear that the World Bank is going to continue the work on the road. The contractor told Dr. Stanley that a box culvert at the entrance would be 500,000 Naira (about $1,400 at the current exchange rate).

Almost all the available funds from the US have been spent. They are now fundraising in Nigeria for the funds to complete the project.