For One Another Happenings

This is one of the project we looked at this week.  We decided that this little future medical clinic would be a great place to start. 

Entering the building that
will be the clinic.

 Things have been going great here in El Salvador.  I have only encountered 2 cockroaches and that is pretty good for here. :) The weather has been extremely humid and hot but with occasional storms that cool us down with the rain.  It is such a beautiful country.  It is green and tropical everywhere you look and the people here are so helpful and friendly.  It is a good thing since Stef and I get lost from time to time.  Each time we ask for directions the people will walk us all the way to the bus stop that we need to go to.  So awesome!!!  

Future waiting room..

Last week we were able to go with Nancy and her group and visit several different projects.  We toured a school for street kids.  We met with each of the directors and discussed with them the possibility for us to help in certain areas.  We currently have many ideas to implement simple learning techniques to teach hygiene to the teachers, parents and kids.  However when we toured the small clinic at the school and heard that it is not currently running we knew we wanted to help..  The director got the keys to open it and show us around.  It is a super small clinic with one area to do exams and a small entry and waiting area.  The government will only allow it to be opened if the following items are provided and kept in the clinic.  So we have been working on getting the medical items needed so that the clinic can officially open and serve the children and surrounding community.  

By the clinic being opened this allows the at-risk children in a poverty stricken community to be seen by a doctor.  The parents or family members of these children are very poor and many uneducated.  When their child is very sick they don't bring them to a doctor and even if they went to the doctor they wouldn't have enough money to pay for the child's medicine.  Last week I saw in the newspaper that a 4 year old little girl had died from Dengue Fever.  I'm sure with a quick trip to the clinic and the correct medicine this child could've been saved.

Our friend here has 2 groups of doctors and nurses that will be coming in about 2 weeks to work in clinics in El Salvador.  They bring a lot of medicine and needed items to keep these clinics running.  For One Another's team is working right now here and in the United States on provided this clinic with the tools needed to get it up and running. 

Some of the items we will be purchasing to open the clinic:

-Stethoscopes

-BP cuff

-Otoscope 

-Penlight

-Exam light

-Exam bed

-Nebulizer

-O2 masks, 4 various sizes

-Plastic measuring tape

-Surgery set

-Gloves sterile and non-sterile

-Surgery masks

-Cotton balls

-Syringe, various sizes

-Tape 

-Tongue depressors

-Saline solution

-Extractor

-Urine collectors

-Manual Cauterizer 

Thanks again for everyone's support!  Things like this are possible because of your help! We hope to have this clinic running with government approval by mid to late August.  

- Carrie