David Penner's Trip to Veracruz

David Penner left on June 17 to join the fifth Amiguitos work team in Veracruz for construction on the Laguna center and 8 medical clinics.

Updates from the Amiguitos Work Team Blog

On Tuesday June 22, 2010, at 6:00 PM, David Penner wrote:

Today we held a clinic at Hermenigildo Galena, at a school Amiguitos had never been to before. It was the biggest day for the June trip so far- We had 372 People (908 perscriptions filled), the vast majority were students at the school. I was helping with triage and doing blood pressure, which wasn’t bad at all- the kids don’t need to have their blood pressure checked. We were busy, but it all moved efficiently and the doctors worked fast. For lunch we had Gordas and empenadas and of course, Coca cola.

David leads the triage team - here taking a blood pressure

The kids seemed to think I was strange, all white and tall and blue eyed- but we all had fun. One highlight was the students dance classes in the courtyard where we worked- then a group of young girls being coached to dance to lady gaga.

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On Monday June 21, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Curtis Wait wrote:

Today was a great work day. We were at Tarimoya, which is the poorest area that we work in and the school agreed at the last moment to allow us to have clinic there. We were short a doctor and still delivered a great clinic (201 patients seen; 608 perscriptions filled). We miss all our friends from last week who returned to the USA and enjoyed having David Penner at his first clinic.

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