Med Team Update
We returned to the same barrio of La Romana that we have visited on the Friday of each of our last two trips to the D.R., though we were in a different neighborhood/site. We treated upwards of 170 patients today, more than we have ever done at any clinic before. We saw lots of patients with scabies today, and one little boy who was so covered in scabies we had to send him to the hospital. Dr. Denny, one of the Dominican doctors we work with, will do follow up care on this boy and tell us how he fares in the coming days.
Construction Update
The construction team finished a ton of painting on two houses today. We had the absolute joy of passing the keys to two families who, as of today, leave dirt-floor homes with roofs with many quarter to baseball size holes in them. One of the families had a child named Emelin (boy age 9) who had become a special friend to your youngest traveler, Hayden French. The look on Hayden's face when he realized that the house we were building was for his special friend was indescribable. After having spent a week at Batey 50, and for some of our travelers it was their third annual visit there, saying goodbye to our special friends is difficult. We are already counting the days until we can see them again.
(Photos of the clinic and video of giving away the two houses to come soon.)
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