This week we jumped right back in. In 3 days a medical team comes to do 7 medical clinics in a slum area of our city. This is our 2nd time around doing this as a medical team came last September. We have high hopes that the 2nd time around will go much smoother. We already have the medications set up at our first location and have discussed the flow of the clinic. The biggest anticipated stress is thinking about crowd control. When something free is being offered in desperate days as these, people can get quite pushy. Our goal is to serve as many people as possible, but also give our medical professionals the space and peace to do a quality job.
I am excited
- to see people from home
- to use my newly acquired language
- to meet new local ladies (with hope that I will see some again)
- to survey the people in anticipation of future, long term medical work
- to gather more anthropological insights for medical care.
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