This will be quick because I’m getting tired and I haven’t even tried to hook up to the Internet yet.
The day started quite cool and crisp. It was perfect for a walk to the church where were were holding our clinic. We met around 8am and got working on arranging the check in tables, the triage area and the pharmacy. Dr. PJ and Brad generally ran the front desks using some incredibly helpful interpreters and Julie, Nikki and I worked in the pharmacy handing out meds. Generally people were coming in for aches and pains for which we prescribed 1x2x10 Ibuprofen pills (1 pill, twice/day for 10 days – I’m learning a lot of medilingo and medicines in general). We had one abscess, which Brad was all sorts of excited to suck out/cut open/whatever, I avoided watching and Nikki was excited to see. Dr. PJ was a little like, “OMG, who knows what kind of staph we have floating around here, wear a mask.” We had a couple of shots for kiddos, a lot of worm medicine and some random other stuff. I really believe we went through more than half of the common medicines, and we are just getting started.
The people are all very sweet and the translators are essential. The church folks have been super accommodating and served us morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea. They are a great group of folks.
The kids are really wonderful and deserve a blog post of their own, so I’ll stop here for the time being. Tomorrow we’ll be heading to another location down the road. After seeing 257 (official) patients today, I wonder what we have in store for tomorrow!
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