Clinic Day Dos

We drove to the other side of Lake Yojoa through Pena Blanca to a town and area called Las Vegas.

The road down to the lake was long, winding and dirt. We set up in a community building made from cinder block and had a tin roof.

The surroundings of this town was beautiful! But we came to find out that the local hotel/restaurant was kept alive by drug production and trafficing. Also that the people on the land were basically squaters At some point they had planned an "invasion" where a large group of people (usually 30+) decide to set up house on a piece of land, whether they own it or not. Once the community is established it is very difficult for the real land owner to kick them out because of there is no government help.

During the day we saw about 140 people. We saw our oldest patient on this day, a 70 year old woman. Intake and triaging went much smoother the second day. The reason this was true was because of two things, we knew our roles much better and second because we had a larger space to patients to wait & sit.

This also was the day we saw a boy who had been bitten by a bot fly. These flies lay larva under the skin. Thankfully the larva had already been removed but an abscess formed around the removal site. Dr. Boyd numbed the area and drained the abscess. This process took about fifteen minutes. The wound was allowed to stay open because the bacteria that inhabit wounds like this boys are anaerobic so exposing them to the air helps kill them.

Before leaving the village around 3pm we were able to snap some pictures of the beautiful surroundings.