Medical Clinic

Yesterday, Ashley and got to help our teammates, Mike & Erin, put on a medical clinic. Erin is a nurse and every week they put on a clinic for the community they are working in. Yesterday we went to help so that we can learn the process because we hope to be able to provide some medical help to the people of La Fe.

Ashley working intake.

Since neither of us know anything about medicine, we learned the two other main processes of the clinic: intake and pharmacy.

Intake is where we take in patients. Depending on age, we take height, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, and arm circumference. We also find out why the patients are there. You know, What hurts? We also pray with each patient and give them a Gospel tract.

Pharmacy is well, a pharmacy. Erin writes down the medicine that each patient needs and we provide it for them and explain how and when they need to take it.

So, Ashley prefers working intake and I prefer pharmacy which works well. We both learned what to do for each station so that we are able to do it if the other is not available. Yesterday was a great experience for us to help some sick people as well as prepare to help others in La Fe, where our main ministry will be.