Today's clinic saw 157 patients and filled 564 prescriptions.
The site for the second house was just right around the corner from the church. So after we helped set up for the clinic, the construction crew just walked to the build site. The homeowner had done quite a bit of preparation, but this site wasn't in near as good of shape as the last.
But still, we managed to make great progress.
This was also one of the poorer looking sites I can remember in my time here. The living conditions are just impossible to explain if you haven't seen it first hand. I asked Ricky today "how could you live like this?" Then I answered my own question - if you don't know any different, you just live like this.
After we quit work for the day at both construction and medical, we stopped back by the first house we built. Today was moving day for Ramos and he wanted us to stop and pray blessings over the new home with him.
The man with the cowboy hat is Ramos' brother in law. He spoke to the group and thanked us for everything we have done for Ramos.
Then we hurried back to Tegucigalpa to pick up 300 plates of food that the AFC clinic had prepared for us to give away at Hospital Escuela. This is my least favorite part of the trip. It is such a sad place. The waiting room is outside. There is no furniture for family members in the rooms. Patients must furnish their own bedding and often their own medicine. The Hondurans call it the Hospital of Death.
The Hospital Escuela will definitely make you appreciate the health care we enjoy in the United States.
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