The nurses were promised a raise, so Monday we were in the clinic again, I thought we would be busier, but we saw about 25 kids. Dr. Howard came down for a week and a half. He is busy arranging and meeting with people. Dr. Hott is still in the ER, and still enjoying it, he sees much different things than we do. He has made some nice improvements to the ER, by improvising a handwashing station. He also did a meeting with them about HAZMAT. He’s pretty cool.
Wednesday, another resident arrived, Dr. Tamy, the clinic was pretty crowded with five doctors and an intern, but we made the space work and were able to see lots of patients. Not to many interesting cases, lots of upper respiratory infections and scabies. It seemed like every chart said ‘cough and cold’ as the chief complaint, and if it didn’t, they would say they did as soon as you asked. Friday looke like the nebulizer special, as we had three kids in one corner all on nebulizers at the same time.
Dr. Mario and Dr. Howard were pretty busy arranging meeting and had a great meeting about setting up a tooth varnish program through the vaccination clinic, getting it set up across Roatan, and using it as a model to have it set up across Honduras. It sounds like Mario should be spearheading the project, and I think he’s excited about it. It was a good week, with a good team.
