Emmanuel clinic is innagurated!

With the foundation complete, the walls up...the rooms divided...the roof on...Emmanuel clinic is shaping into a usable space and we held our first clinic! There are no doors or windows and the floor is still dirt and the ceiling rafters. However, in the brick shell, Dr, Hinshaw saw OB patients and even found a breech! I saw the others and Leigh did the pharmacy. We saw about 100 people in an afternoon. Dr. Hinshaw saw more the next day. He and Leigh had done a lot of community teaching before I arrived. It was great! Ashley helped us in the clinic and kept us well hydrated! One of the families..was Jennifer's one of our village healthcare workers who was pregnant last year..and was having a tough time with leg swelling. Well, she had twins and delivered on the farm! And guess who the twins are named after? Brenda and Leigh!! They brought me the 4 year old child who is very sick..had medical records showing hemoglobin of 4..so I wonder if the child has sickle cell? Mom, Brenda and Leigh are very anemic so put them on vitamins and iron...and talked with dad about family planning! All is well...tomorrow is the school outreach..stay tuned!