Haiti Jan. 14, 2013

I was picked up after a delay due to some issues with the driver coming late which meant a late start in the clinic; this can be tough without lights when it gets dark. We returned to the school in Carrefour to distribute medications per the plan for those patients who had received prescriptions from the previous mobile clinic we held. A translator and one of the doctors came to help. We had discussions with the school director Jones with the help of a woman I’d met at the guesthouse about the need to have electricity provided since there would be medications to pass out and we’d need ample light to do so. I wanted to plan ahead so that we would have enough lighting to safely and correctly manage the patient’s. After deliberation, Jones agreed to have the lights on without us paying extra. We did not arrive at the site until late afternoon which meant it would be getting dark soon. Patients arrived, questions came up about wanted to be seen, but due to time constraints we only planned on filling scripts that had already been written. James the translator helped me with translation and one of the Haitian providers helped process medication orders. We left later on and headed back to Port au Prince.