Full Day 3 (Thursday)

Hey there friends!

Today was perhaps one of the most exciting of them all. Early this morning our clinic team met with the team from UIC before heading up the mountain. Their group consisted of 21 members, many of them Family Nurse Practitioner's (FNP's) and FNP students. They were an awesome group of people to work with. As we reached the MTM site we saw a line of at least 100 people waiting outside the clinic door. Several of the UIC team members have been to MTM before and so within a matter of 30 minutes we were up and running.

 We saw a vast array of clients including a 6 day young infant, school-aged children, several young mothers and pregnant women,  and even some of the elderly generation. With our basic resources we were able to screen for diabetes, high blood pressure, urinary tract infections, tuberculosis, and provide pregnancy tests. Thanks to the bounty of donated supplies we could supply our clients with antibiotics, hypertension medicine, prenatal and children vitamins, basic hygiene kits, and treatments for intestinal worms and scabies (very common conditions). Another part of our group was incredibly faithful in doing the tedious work of counting out medications and organizing the cluttered pharmacy/donation storage room.

On another front, the team putting the computers together and establishing internet up at the school had a breakthrough. The internet team was able to connect to the web and the first Google search was made from Gramothe village! One small step for our team, one large step for the MTM school. Connecting to the internet will open great opportunities for the students to learn and connect to the rest of the world. Very exciting stuff! The connection to the internet, however, was shorter lived than hoped and so we ask for your prayers that we may create a sustained connection that is reliable. The shop team stayed busy making a beautiful cabinet to store the laptops while others of us installed a number of invaluable programs on all 15 computers.

Our team is feeling in high spirits about what is being done here and rejoice that God has called us to be a part of this awesome work. We look forward to our next 2 days to serve. More stories to follow.

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