Medical Clinics

We arrived in Canilla Sunday morning, the 13th, and hit the ground running.  From the airport in Canilla, I got in a pickup and headed off to San Andres to clinic.   This year, Bethany has been helping in the medical clinics.  Here is a picture of her in San Andres taking a blood pressure.  She also learned to check blood sugars.  We will see, this may be a view into her future calling. 

Tuesday clinics are up the mountain in Chiminisjuan.  Here is a picture of Armondo, a local pastor, preaching before clinic starts.

Lori and Bethany helped this last Tuesday with the nutrition program.  Children are weighed and given milk and food to supplement their diets.  The most nutritionally compromised kids seem to always be the sickest.

Last Thursday, was the monthly clinic in Chumisa.  This is a more isolated village to the north.  A Guatemalan dentist went with us.  Here is a picture of him working on the other side of the door way.  Our pharmacy table is to the left.  Clinic was held in an adobe village home.  The low ceilings and lack of windows is typical of the homes in this area.  You can also see the power cord hanging down on the right.  Not the easiest place to evaluate and treat patients.

It is always so rewarding and overwhelming to serve here in Guatemala.  The needs are so great and the resources so limited.  Whenever the need is beyond what we can offer medically, we ask for the help of the Great Physician - we offer to pray with them.