First Day of Clinic - Tuesday Morning

The first day of clinic was Tuesday morning at St. Clare School. As an individual with no medical background, I was providing support to the medical staff as needed. I did urine testing for a short time in the morning, helped patients try on glasses and select a pair of glasses and a case. I took lots of pictures to document our trip, and made the meals that day. I was a runner and did what I was told. I hope you enjoy the pictures I took that day!

Clinic at St. Clare School was open at 8am and closed around 1pm.  It's winter in Peru and reaches the middle 80's during the day. The early morning temperature is in the 60's, The people had to patiently wait to be called for check-in. 

The check in area is on ground level. Miranda is obtaining basic demographic information from this gentleman. Once that information is obtained, the people must walk up a flight of stairs to the second floor.

At the top of the flight of stairs is the triage area where the nurses obtain medical history. In these pictures, Nancy and Catherine are talking with the patients. Catherine is bilingual in Spanish and did the translating in this area on Tuesday. On Tuesday only, the same nurses that were taking the medical history were also obtained their vital signs, obtaining blood pressure, pulse, weight, etc. 

  The people waited in a very comfortable area until they were called by the doctor.

There was one medical doctor, Peggy, and one PA, Charlie.  Peggy did not speak Spanish and required a translator and Charlie is bilingual.

 After the patients were seen by the doctor, if they had vision problems, they walked over to an area with a variety of glasses.  The morning clinic finished around 1:30pm.

The staff had to eat and go to another location to provide services to another area of the city. All meds had to be packed into suitcases and transported via motokars. The afternoon events will be published next!

Deb Passino

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