Tuesday marked the fifth year our team has spent a day at Batey Guazabal. The setting at Guazabal is very pastoral and the people are very sweet. This year's clinic was full of patients with acute hypertension, STDs, and malaria. We reunited with several friends, including a feisty lady in her late sixties named Victoria who remembers our names year to year and gives hugs like a vice grip. There is also a special needs boy on this batey, named Jacson, of who our team is very fond. He raced to bus and leapt into arms in order to receive hugs from his blue-shirted friends. The clinic ran even more smoothly than Mondays. Jessica D. has taken charge of running our pharmacy and is doing a masterful job; today was aided by Jeanette B., Hannah D. and Lily Y. Greeting patients at the door and recording their information (a job we call intake) was done by Noe and all our translators were very impressed with his Spanish!
Our second day at Batey 50 was very similar to the first…lots more digging and pick axing to finish the trench for the foundation. We are proud to say it is complete and the day was finished off with cutting and placing the rebar (which Mike D. calls rhubarb!). On Wednesday we will start with mixing and pouring cement into the trench.
After our work day we enjoyed a Toros baseball game which was sadly cut short by a rain delay.
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