Monday in Chinique......beginning......

We had our first clinic in Chinique yesterday, which was Monday. I am behind in my blogging due to heavy rains and problems with the internet service. A new church has recently been established in this area and is helped very much by our brothers from Choacaman IV. They offered their support and spent the day with us in Chinique.

We were all ready for a day of adventure as we left Clinica Caris. The Sizemore family, Juan, Gaspar, Maury and I traveled with the group from Texas to Chinique. Pat Hile heads this group and what a group he has! It was good to recognize people from last year. We set up clinic behind a house and they used a loud speaker system to announce the clinic. We had three stations for medical consults, an area for the dentists, a check in area and a pharmacy set up with eye glasses.

This group counted, bag medicines and prepared for the children's program that took place in the afternoon.


Diana is a nurse and she is checking people in before their consult. She checked their blood pressure, pulse, weight, temperature and blood sugar if needed.
This is Marylou who is also checking patients before their consult. These ladies kept the flow of patients moving before they were seen by a physician.
This is the pharmacy area. James, in the back ground, has made many trips to Guatemala and is a pro at keeping the pharmacy organized and preparing medicines for the patients. Laura, Frank Judy, and Juan were also helping out.
Andrea is helping the children as they use water colors to paint pictures.

There are more photos on the next blog. It was a great day with a total of 60 medical patients and 32 dental patients. Most of the time, we are only able to pull teeth out in the field but this group was able to do fillings. What a wonderful opportunity it is to be able to save teeth when there is that possibility. More to follow on this day.............