Mountain Village

The third clinic day we went to a mountain village. Unfortunately because we had such heavy rain the day before our little 5-speed van had a difficult time making it up the muddy mountain road. Fortunately Israel and his sons have done this many times before and we were towed the last hundred yards or so by the big diesel truck!

Clinic again went smoothly and we broke for lunch. After we had packed up a lady arrived in a wheel chair. It was obvious she had been in a bad accident because her left knee was essentially destroyed. She had been in a car accident three months earlier and once released from the hospital she hadn't seen another doctor. The wound on her left leg was weepings clear fluid and two bone chips had come out. In order to protect her body from infection we gave her some antibiotics and some ibuprofen to help with pain. It was unfortunate to see this women in such a terrible condition, knowing that even temporary help was better than no help at all. 

After this remote mountain village we went to one more village but unfortunately it started raining. It continued to rain and no one will come because they would have to stand outside waiting in the rain. So we gave our remaining supplies to the local "leader", distributed some stickers to the children and headed back to the hotel.