Combined Blogs for Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday

Yesterday, Monday our team, during a very dry and hot day set up the medical station with the Doctors area, the Dental Clinic at Pablos house on the hill where we were offered free use of the bathroom, water, and electricity.  What a great spot Pablo has, which he has built complete by his own hands! This is the spot to be used by the two dental teams to clean and repair teeth of both children and adults.

Bron and I set up the vision clinic with corrective lens and sunglasses, which will be fitted to the adults coming to the clinic from the village being served. We have enough sunglasses to give to most patients.

The pharmacy was manned by Doctors, nurses and the general help, counting pills and filling the bags for patients to take to their homes.

Austin, Kristen and Amanda had the 50 kids running in high gear having a great time.

We finished the day buying groceries, bought some chairs and some small tables making our services more efficient

We are ready to serve!

Harvey

On Tuesday 3/06/2012 the Panama team started with breakfast at McDonalds.  We needed to buy a scales at a store near-by to weigh our patients.  This was done on all patients on their checking in to be examined.  The team doctors and dentists did not have approval from the government yet to serve the community.  At about 11:00 A.M.  the team received the clearance needed to physically examine and treat patients. 

We continued to pump up the pill selection in the pharmacy with the lack of customers.  Tomorrow should be the big day.

About 70 children again had a terrific chance to run our people ragged.

At the close of the day we bused some of the children to their mountain home and continued to a higher elevation to the town of El Valle de Anton, where we finished the day at a zoological park where we saw lots of chickens along with a few toucans and parrots, an ocelot and other local animals.

Returning to our quarters we finished the day with our Centering Time, which is a reflection of the day’s work and a time for prayer. 

Harvey

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 we started out early to be on site and open by 0900.  We had patients waiting our arrival.  The people in this area seem to be healthier and better off than the Nobe Bougle.  We had a steady line of clients all day long. We closed the clinic about 3:30 P.M.  Last night after dinner the four translators from David arrived.  The trip for them was about 9 hours.

Again we had a good number of kids to run around with for the afternoon. 

The dental clinic with Heather, Nancy, Loree and Pete kept busy with patients all day and but the electrical power shut down for two hours and we had to get the portable generator running.

Bron fit most of the adult patients of the day with glasses and sunglasses .  She and Charles were the last to close shop.  It was a very productive day for the eye clinic.