insurance

in the aftermmatch of the nighty incident, but its not only me sleeping nervously, my housemate getting more security-paranoid, but my guard actually suffered from severe head shock. so last Friday we have been trying 3 clinics to |check his head| (as the fabulous beastie boys would sing). the first clinic could only do malaria testing (one never knows....) and in the second place posh "doctors plaza" the doctor wasn't in the whole day. but at least they had - besides a huge noisy TV - also an Xray. so thirdly, we tried the real hospital, where Wonjiale was diagnozed not to have a bad brain. puh. also we did not need to pay service fees. maybe because the doctor appreciated his burglar chasing efforts.

what stroke me is our expat luck again: we have a good health insurance paid by our company and can go to the expensive doctors and hospitals without hesitation, and get the money repaid later. but the average Ugandan, and especially my staff has no insurance as such, and whenever someone is ill, it costs them a fortune of their salary. and insurance is so expensive, especially if you consider the whole family (of 6 people at least....). so what is often done is to insure the mother, the dad and the first son as priority. mmmmm, depressing, isn't it.

for more personal sleep insurance, we have by lucky incident a friend staying here with us: and he is not only huge but also a fantastic pastacook :) and since today we are also razorwired.