Monday April 06, 2015

We wake to see villagers arriving by boat to be seen in our first clinic. We gather for devotions and breakfast before gathering supplies and debarking for clinic. We are introduced to the village chief and health agent, who welcomes us to the Amazon. There is a little chaos as we set up for the first time, but everyone soon finds their place and the mission begins in earnest. We do morning clinic from 8:30 to noon and come back from 2:00 till 5:00. We saw 124 patients during the day. Our patients ranged from several weeks old to 96! The children are beautiful and well behaved. After sharing some gifts of health and sewing kits with the village chief, we gather our supplies and head back to the boat. After dinner we head down the river several hours and branch off on the River Mutuca, to dock at Saissama for Tuesday’s clinic.