How It´s Done

So everyone knows what a typical day here at the clinic looks like:

We try to leave around 8:15am to arrive between 8:45 and 9am at the church we are serving. (We will be at a total of 4 church locations throughout our 6 days of clinic ministry.) We arrive, and set up. Each team has prayer (the overall team is broken into various subteams, children´s ministry (keeping the kids entertained while they are at the clinic) construction ministry (they are staying at our first location, so they are the only team not with everyone elseg the optical team medical (4 nurses who are checking the patients) and outreach (praying with every person/family as they come through). Then we get started.

A person receives a number when they arrive at the clinic. We have someone at the door to call out their number, they come forward. Our "gatekeeper" askes about what their symptons are. They get a new number (attached to their paper) and get their vitals checked. Then they wait for a nurse to see them. The nurse talks with them, gives writes up a perscription. While their perscription is being filled, the patient and family receive prayer and the opportunity to receive Christ as the Healer and Savior (I´m not sure the actually number of conversions). Then they pick up their perscription and head on out.

Things went much smoother yesterday. There are still many stories, but again, I dont have time to go into them. There were only 2 problems yesterday, and both were dealt with. There was a minor riot outside the clinic, but that was handled, and some ladies at the pharmacy had issues when they all thought they had been there the longest and therefore should be the next person in line to receive medications. But again, that was handled and everyone got their meds and were happy.

I hope and pray today goes just as smooth, or smoother today, as we are able to see more people the more smoothly things go (the first day we saw about 60-70 people, yesterday about 150 in the same time period).