Guatemala Day 3

We started the clinics early splitting into two teams.  One team staying at the orphanage while the rest of us traveled to Nueva Esperanza to set up a travel clinic.

Team 1(Nueva Esperanza)
Michael
Blaise
Skylar
Matt
Cari
Kendall
Katie
Eric

My team arrived at the local school in Nueva Esperanza and families gathered quickly once they saw we had arrived.  We broke into four different groups including registration, nursing, practitioner and pharmacy.  Many of the people here speak one of the mayan languages which required us to use multiple interpreters making some of the conversations a bit like playing telephone.

 After a bit of a rough start we worked out our routine, learning the essential phrases and started bringing in patients.  We worked as quickly as we could through the long line that had formed, seeing many different types of patients includintg ones with parasites, gastrointestinal problems, pelvic inflammatory disease, among many others.  In total our travel clinic saw roughly 60 patients and ended later than anticipated due to the high demand.

Team 2) Los Robles
Aislinn
Tyler
Ruth
Peter
Brynn
Jon
Cade

The home clinic in Los Robles faced different obstacles, word about the clinic had spread slower and the team received few patients in the morning with most coming in the afternoon.  Team members were able to use their free time to help count and sort medications as well as learn from each other.  Our interpreter Tyler was able to spend time in the pharmacy and learn about different medications in order to  better help as the day got busier.  The local clinic ended up running late and was still operating at when the team members from the travel clinic returned.

Wrap up
We gathered up at the end of the night for our team meeting and debriefing with some of us sneaking in a quick game of Uno beforehand.  Finishing our evening we talked about our days and went to prepare for the next day before a well deserved sleep.