Terror raced through the nurse's mind. Blood from a child's wound had splattered into her eye.
The nurse is part of a medical team from America here this week treating children at our Children's Cup Care Points in Swaziland. Statistically, about half the children we care for are HIV positive.
Did this child's blood carry the deadly virus into the nurses body?
Another nurse treating another child was accidentally pricked by a syringe just used to give a child a shot.
Instant terror followed by deep dread followed by prayer. Was this child HIV positive?
These two nurses came to Swaziland out of compassion for suffering children. Now they have several week's of dreadful wait to see if they became infected with life stealing AIDS.
Unexplainable cultural protocols and medical regulations keep us from testing the children the nurses were treating to see if they were HIV positive--a gut wrenching, senseless denial of information. The nurses must wait about four weeks before they know if they are victims.
Mark 16:18 declares God's power over "...any deadly thing..."
Please pray with us for these nurses that God will, indeed, protect them from any possibility of being harmed by "any deadly thing." Let's ask God to give each of them a quiet peace and confidence in Him.
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11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the LORD bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
from those whose walk is blameless.
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