2-19 Thursday
Today was a busy day at the clinic. Approximately once a month the clinic advertizes the opportunity for child immunizations and OBgyn visits and today was the day. Fortunately there is additional medical staff to help with this as there were about 150 or so patients that went through the clinic today. In addition to the medical visit, there is a significant amount of education that is attempted to be communicated to the newly pregnant women. It is certainly a good opportunity and the women are very receptive to all that is shared.
We are in clinic from the early morning until mid afternoon. Every morning we arrive to patients already waiting, but some time is taken for a small staff devotional time before starting for the day. Patients are seen from about 8:30 to noon. We break for lunch and have some box-type hot food that is prepared at the CDI kitchen. It is nice to eat all together and be able to share our experiences of the day. One of the fun things that has become our little tradition on this trip is that Dr. Jeff has become our designated person to say grace. If you have opportunity to ask him about it, it's a nice story. After lunch we return to patient visits. Depending on how many patients arrive the afternoon may last until 4pm but usually ends a little sooner.
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