I volunteered primarily for Ear Nose Throat and it was crazy to watch the things that would be found in people’s ear canals.  In one day we syringed out a live butterfly, beans, rocks, and of course impacted wax.  The climate and lack of knowledge on how to take care of one’s ears has led to a lot of ear infections; children in general tend to get more ear infections than adults but I have never seen as many as I did in Uganda.  A typical day for me would involve traveling to several orphans who needed their ear infections taken care both in the morning and in the evening.  Many people but especially children had acquired hearing loss resulting from ear infections left untreated or the medicines that they have taken or been given through an injection (many of the malaria injections have a side-effect of causing hearing loss).  The rehabilitative services in Uganda are rare and hard to find.  If a child acquires deafness he/she most likely will not learn other ways to communicate (such as sign).  There are a few schools for D/deaf children but they typically are private which requires payment for each term.  Any rehabilitative services are difficult to find and if one does find them they typically are not well equipped.  For example, the physical therapy center in Iganga had an exercise bike that no longer worked.