Monday we set up our campaign at our church in Manuel Arevalo. It is a needy community and the church serves many women and their children. We worked hand in hand with Pastor Eduardo Quiroz and had opened the campaign to anyone and everyone in the surrounding community. We had a pulmonologist (Dr. Doug Mullins, Savannah, GA) which was a blessing as many children and adults suffer from asthma here. We had a medical resident specializing in internal medicine (Dr. James Huffman, Savannah, GA) who covered the general medical problems. We also had a nurse (Jocelyn Halverson, Seattle, WA) attending in triage, Manuel, our clinic's dentist, and our head nurse, Diana, in our make-shift pharmacy. Lora translated for Dr. Huffman (internal medicine) for the day. We started attending to patients around 9:00am, stopped for a 10-15 minute lunch, and continued until about 3:00pm. We believe we saw around 90 patients total on Monday. We were able to pray with patients, invite them to attend the church, and encourage those who were already members. In addition to providing free medical care, we were able to offer free medication all day. The first day of a campaign is always a little hectic as doctors and nurses from the states are taking it all in and are figuring out how to work with an interpreter, along with figuring out the culture as some basic fundamentals are so completely different. Everyone did great and went home ready for some rest! We would be conquering another day soon...
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