Cindy had made contact with a local Honduran doctor through Juan Bendect at the wood factory (for those who have been here you will know what we are talking about). Juan also owns the television station in El Progreso and the doctor has a show on the station. We had watched the doctor's program and on the show he seemed to be very nice and wanting to help people in the community. Cindy contacted him and he came to Faith Home and picked up some stuff we wanted to donate to someone who could use the stuff to help the community.
The doctor, Dr. Galo, invited us to come with him on the medical clinic he was holding in a local community on Sunday - which is today. So, we were excited to go and see what they do.
We arrived at his house about 9:00 am and waited for him to return from a local clinic where he was picking up supplies. While we were waiting two other doctors arrived along with a nurse (we think she was a nurse). A little later Dr. Galo arrived and a few minutes later another doctor arrived.
We loaded up in four vehicles (every doctor had their own vehicle because they each had to leave at different times) and off we went. We rode with Dr Galo and his body guard who was carrying both a rifle and a pistol. Another of the doctors had a body guard also. This is the life of people here who are successful financially. They are targets of kidnapping to be held for ransom. So, many have personal bodyguards that go with them everywhere they go.
We were curious to see how they ran their clinics and compare it to the way we do our clinics. It was interesting. It was held in a church. The church had a curtain hanging in the middle of the church to divide it into two sections. One section where the people would wait and the other section where the people would be seen by the doctors and receive any medicine the doctors prescribed.
Dr. Galo was in an area enclosed with sheets and the other three doctors just sat at tables in the middle of the room. The people sat at the tables with the doctors and the doctors tore off pieces of blank paper to write prescriptions. The people than took the paper to the table with the medicine. Got their stuff and left. The women were also able to see Dr. Galo as he is a gynecologist.
Cindy spent the day working with Dr. Galo and Brad observed how they did it and played with the kids.
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