I feel like I have slept more in the past 24 hours than I have in the past 2 weeks!!
We had a Medical Team from Chilliwack visiting and we did 8 mobile medical clinics over 12 days - 2 of them were in northern Bouva/Grande Savande which included 2 very long travel days. We dropped the team off at a Guesthouse in Port-au-Prince yesterday afternoon and made it back to Grande Goave well after dark... it seemed to only take a few minutes to shower and fall fast asleep :)
There are too many pictures to share them all so I'm going to focus on our Tetebef clinic.
Some of the church leaders slept at my house the night before and we loaded their donkeys up with medicine and supplies at 4:30am... so they could walk up the mountain & arrive before our estimated start time of 8am.
The team "ordered" 22 motorcycles and we did some serious off roading as we climbed the mountain. The path had been damaged by Hurricane Matthew but we managed to make our way up.
Leader of our pack:
When we arrived in Tetebef there were many more people than we expected and we were happy to see that the church members had patched together a building so that we could do the clinic out of the sun. The original church building had been destroyed in the 2010 earthquake and the temporary church they rebuilt was once again destroyed in Hurricane Matthew.
Triage:
Doctor's examining room:
Pharmacy with a view!:
Chronic back pain clinic:
A little something extra:
The trip back down the mountain proved to be tricky for the motorcycles and the donkeys. The team ended up walking down some slippery sections and the donkeys refused to carry the supplies... so their owners took over!
This was just one of the clinics - there were 7 others with similar adventures & many clinics had over 200 patients seen. It was truly a blessing to be able to serve alongside of this medical team!
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