An “Unfortunate Incident”

I had a wonderful opportunity today to go out to a local church about 20 minutes from here with a doctor who is only here because of an “unfortunate incident” at the mission he was supposed to go to in Port au Prince. They were unable to take the team and asked if they could come to NWHCM. He has been to many third world countries doing this very thing, and he was very good at it. He had people with him from his group and a couple nurses that just happened to be here, lots of medical supplies already divided into little zip lock baggies so non-medical people could hand them out after the nurse or doctor decided what they needed. They also had several bags full of cloths to be given out to everybody as well. What a blessing he was to that small community. How much more respect will the pastor who set the clinic up get from the people he serves.


Though we were not able to keep count of the patients seen, I would think a fair guess would be about 200-250. Most really didn’t need much if anything, other than to know that someone cared about them. I think that is the most important thing we can do here, give hope. A good number had some small complaints that back in America you could have just gotten a bottle of Motrin at Wal-Mart and been fine. Some we found to have needed antibiotics or blood pressure medicine, and we could help them and hope that they follow-up with the clinic for more blood pressure medicine. If they don’t they don’t, but at least for today, they know somebody cared.