Lamu Laboratory

An essential part of any hospital, especially in Africa where TB, HIV and malaria are so prevalent, is the laboratory. Lamu has a highly-skilled lab staff but they have to improvise with very poor equipment.
Here is the staff:

Here are cultures being grown in a tattered old case with an ordinary striplight:

And here are slides with blood being tested for malaria being dried out using a rusty old fan:

Not strictly part of the lab, but here is the blood bank. All blood has to come through the testing centre at Mombasa and kept at a temperature of around 7 degrees. In Lamu it is stored in a domestic fridge and the door opened from time to time to stop the blood from getting too cold.