Namaste to all readers at home.
Today we had our health camp for the villages in the area. As you already know from yesterday’s blog, we did campaigning for the free health and dental care clinic. Everyone who needed health and dental care came to get their treatment. In total there were more than 900 people who came to seek help for their wellbeing.
We had separate registration, blood pressure and temperature tables and teams for male and female, the same for eye screening. Afterwards there were two rooms, one with the optometrist and one with both dentist and physician. Then they got a prescription and went to get their medicine and/or glasses as needed. For this procedure males and females were again separated. Each person had a prescription with their name, gender and age. On each “station” we wrote the results in the right spot on the paper.
Helping at the camp was a wonderful and unique experience because the people who came there, needed the help and it was wonderful to see, how happy people were when they got help. Whenever we told them, the doctor will look at it, their faces lit up. At the end there was one guy, who got glasses and he was putting them on and off, smiling, reading numbers on a wall that was on the other side of the playground, something that was new to him.
After we came back, we had a short meeting in our barazas, in which each one of us shared a story of his or her day. Many stories were really beautiful and heartwarming, but there were also some sad ones.
Stay positive for tomorrows blog and expeditions…
Emma Lunsdorf and Molly Anderson
MVPs
Honourable Mentions from today’s health camp: Jakob, India, Vashunt and Duwi (all four for working nonstop and caring for others) but also the team leaders want to recognise their whole team as MVPs – they worked themselves into the ground and everyone’s exhausted but very proud of what they achieved.
