We were finally able to have a week long clinic again. There have been delays in returning to a routine but it seems that we have worked through that and will hope to get back to a regular schedule with clinics every 3 months. We are working out of a school in the Denis district east of Port Au Prince and right up against the mountains. It is a bit of a challenge to get there but worth the effort. We were able too see about 1000 patients in 5 clinic days and will hope to continue with those numbers in trips to come. Dr Pat and Dr Moira from Virginia and Dr Tom and I from here, we have been there a number of times previously with that group and it goes well.
We are seeing more children than at the previous site, because it is a school and about 1/2 the patients this trip were kids, it has been about 1/3 kids at the other clinic sites. Lots of malnutrition that we can really help with by giving the albendazole for intestinal parasites and multivitamins. In our previous sites, we were able to dramatically reduce malnutrition with that program.
Thank you to so so many people that make Santo Clinic possible.
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