Day 4:Blog by Andi... Medical checks in a village church. SHOPPING and night time feeding program in the slums.
Today saw the team doing med checks on about two hundred people in a village where the people are very poor. When I say poor I mean poor, but what a beautiful bunch of people they were.
Main presentation today was dehydration, diorreah (how do you spell that word)? malnourishment. All were given a bar of scabies soap each, some multi vitamins, worm tablets and pain relief if needed.
Some cheeky little rascals visited every medical station so they could get something from each team !
I remember I couldnt quite concentrate on my particular patient at one point because I could overhear a lady telling another medical team that she was so hungry, she couldnt afford to eat because she had lots of mouths to feed at home. She was exhausted, tired, hungry and just generally unwell. They packed her an extra big bag with extra vitamins and soap for her family and also some fruit and a bar of "lux" soap just for herself, you would have thought she had just been given a gold bullion :0(
All in all a very well organised clinic today, that could not have run the way it did without Cor and his lovely wife Toni, and Mick and Bryony Witter our wonderful pharmceutical team who worked so hard to ensure our supplies were always stocked and pills were dispensed into their little bags and medicines were decanted.
This afternoon the team were given a very well earned couple of hours off to do some shopping at the Russian Markets... we shopped up big . I do believe I got the barter of the day award, a pair of converse bartered down from $25 to $10!
The night time feeding program took us to the poorest part of the city,the slums to distribute 400 food packs to the children in the village. These people used to work on the rubbish dumps until the government closed them down for being too smelley and off putting for tourists, they now have no work and no way to feed their families They were so hungry, I can honestly say I did not enjoy this experience at all especially as we had just been treated to pizza and pasta for dinner then had to see these people just starving. Words cannot convey this place. It was dark, dirty smelly, and really quite scary, I dont even want to think what I was treading in. But on the upside, we did feed 400 very hungry little mouths and each one said "thankyou and god bless you". As I sit here writing the blog tonight, I am so thankful for who I am and what I have.
Over and out from the bobsy twin !
Today saw the team doing med checks on about two hundred people in a village where the people are very poor. When I say poor I mean poor, but what a beautiful bunch of people they were.
Main presentation today was dehydration, diorreah (how do you spell that word)? malnourishment. All were given a bar of scabies soap each, some multi vitamins, worm tablets and pain relief if needed.
Some cheeky little rascals visited every medical station so they could get something from each team !
I remember I couldnt quite concentrate on my particular patient at one point because I could overhear a lady telling another medical team that she was so hungry, she couldnt afford to eat because she had lots of mouths to feed at home. She was exhausted, tired, hungry and just generally unwell. They packed her an extra big bag with extra vitamins and soap for her family and also some fruit and a bar of "lux" soap just for herself, you would have thought she had just been given a gold bullion :0(
All in all a very well organised clinic today, that could not have run the way it did without Cor and his lovely wife Toni, and Mick and Bryony Witter our wonderful pharmceutical team who worked so hard to ensure our supplies were always stocked and pills were dispensed into their little bags and medicines were decanted.
This afternoon the team were given a very well earned couple of hours off to do some shopping at the Russian Markets... we shopped up big . I do believe I got the barter of the day award, a pair of converse bartered down from $25 to $10!
The night time feeding program took us to the poorest part of the city,the slums to distribute 400 food packs to the children in the village. These people used to work on the rubbish dumps until the government closed them down for being too smelley and off putting for tourists, they now have no work and no way to feed their families They were so hungry, I can honestly say I did not enjoy this experience at all especially as we had just been treated to pizza and pasta for dinner then had to see these people just starving. Words cannot convey this place. It was dark, dirty smelly, and really quite scary, I dont even want to think what I was treading in. But on the upside, we did feed 400 very hungry little mouths and each one said "thankyou and god bless you". As I sit here writing the blog tonight, I am so thankful for who I am and what I have.
Over and out from the bobsy twin !