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Haitian Courier #5: I'm Not Alone |
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[Photo captions. Left: Tuberculosis graduation ceremony. Patients who completed the 8-month long TB treatment shared about how the medicine helped them and encouraged other patients to comply with the treatment plan, rather than go see a witch doctor. Center: The cleanup team. We cleaned up around the clinic one afternoon. Right: Drawing blood at mobile clinic. We did a mobile clinic up in the mountains over a weekend.]
Bonjou Mezanmi!
It's only been three weeks since I've arrived in Haiti, but it seems like such a long time because so much as happened already.
Just to give you an idea of what I've been doing here, I've been working mainly at Bethesda Medical Clinic taking vitals, doing basic physical exams, drawing blood, etc. I've also been shadowing the Haitian doctors and nurse practitioners. Working at the clinic has been quite amazing. We have prenatal clinic and well baby clinic every week, hypertension/diabetes clinic every other week, and tuberculosis clinic once a month. We also have HIV/AIDS clinic everyday, so you can imagine I'm learning a lot here. You can read all the details on my blog, which I've been writing almost everyday. I'm about a week behind on my posts, but they are on their way at http://zanmihaiti.blogspot.com.
Last weekend we did a mobile clinic up in the mountains (well, all we have around us are mountains). We saw 250 patients, and I drew lots of blood. I haven't blogged about it yet, but I've posted some pictures to keep you entertained in the meantime at http://picasaweb.google.com/doxadeo/Haiti2008.
Several mission teams came and left these past few weeks. We had one medical team that was here for a month and couple of construction teams for a week each. It's been great working and having fellowship with them, and it was sad to see them go. They've certainly made my time here very enjoyable. Speaking of fun, we went to the beach at Labadee, which was quite fantastic. In a couple weeks all the other short-term missionaries will be gone, but there'll still be long-term missionaries with whom I can interact (and speak English). So I have not been feeling lonely at all like I did in Haiti last year and in Kenya the year before.
I'll keep the newsletters short and brief, so I encourage you to check out the blog and the photos if you are interested in knowing what's been going on in my life in Haiti!
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