The South

A medical team from Mississippi came this past Tuesday, so I have been working with them the past few days. We for the past 3 days we went to southern Belize where there were fatalities from the flooding as a result of Arthur. On Wednesday, we mostly drove around and looked at flood damage and then we went to a pre-school for a clinic. It was originally supposed to only for the 27 students there, but then members of the community started coming in and we saw 70 patients. Thursday we took over the clinic in Pomona and saw 207 patients. We even had to turn 10 people away because 1, it was already almost 2 hours after we said we were closing, and we were running out of medication. One of the most memorable patients was a 3 year old who had been seperated from his family during the flood, and he somehow managed to hold onto a tree for at least 5 hours before he was found. Today we went to a primary school for a clinic and we saw 205 patients. This school had 3 students killed in the flood.

It has been a great experience working with this medical team. I have primarily been taking blood pressures, but I also have been one of the primary translators in the clinics as well which has been fun :)

I think that is all for now!!!