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Campus Leahy is growing. A new dormitory is popping up on the hill next to the garden and an office building is solidly planted on the slope across from the workshop.
Both are in scaffolding, which looks different every day. Men and women work together on the sites, which I have not seen at home in Michigan. From the path to lower Campus Manning, the cholita costume shapes suggest bees moving over a hive.
Unlike my town, no huge cranes tower over the sites...wheel barrows are pushed up and down planks, and workers hoist beams to one another, many hands together. (And many observers, too, with many comments and suggestions from on-lookers waiting for transport or just 'curbsite managing'.)
The architect came running to Dr Wendy when we arrived from morning visits on Tuesday. Behind him, supported by two workers, a woman struggled along, her face covered by a bloody cloth. Dr Wendy opened the health clinic on Campus Leahy quickly.
Under the towel was a large wound, just over her eyebrow, spurting blood. Michaela opened a clean dressing and with a small icepack, ready in the freezer, compressed the woman´s wound, winding gauze around her head. This injury, so close to her eye, needed hospital treatment in Coroico. She was given an antibiotic injection, and put in the ambulance for the 30 minute trip.
We are fortunate here in Carmen Pampa that the UAC supports a school of nursing and an on-site health care provider like Dr Wendy. With so many people living, studying, and working here, the chance for illness and injury to someone is increased.
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