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This visit started out luckily, with no missed connections or baggages (2 backpacks and 3 suitcases). Sarah, Hugh and I stayed at my favorite "home away from home" in Bolivia, Hostal Naira, which had accepted my e-mail reservation by from home in Ann Arbor.
Friday started early, travelling with Dr Wendy and nurses Michaela and Irene to San Pedro for public health visits. The farm families are out in the fields at daybreak, so we try to arrive while they are still at home breakfasting.
We carry vaccines in a cooler, all the families' health documents, measuring scale, and a large backpack which doubles as small emergency room.
Some families are very happy to see us, some not so pleased. The children cling to mama's skirts, the memory of injections obviously still painful, while Dr Wendy documents height, weight and treatments both on the clinic record and each child's pink or blue tri-fold, which brothers or sisters run to find, each kept in a plastic sleeve.
Photo: A baby weighing.
Every visit includes medicines for parasites, vitamins, and a careful discussion of the signs of influenza, as well as a lecture on the importance of fruits and vegetables.
Photo: Oh,no! Hide me, Mama!
In and out of the ambulancia, up and down the paths to the homes, we are finished in time to travel back to Carmen Pampa and open the clinic health post before lunch.
Photo:The ambulancia returns
1 comment:
So glad to see that the health post is back on solid footing.
On your way back to the States, please say hello to Sra. Mery, Sr. Oscar, and all my friends at the Naira.
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