30 January 2009

Honduras Day 6 continued


[Photos (mostly) recovered from multiple sources, hallelujah]
More from the morning at Comipronil officeson Wednesday:
There's a patient's eye view of Susan yes that's a needle, move along squeamish people, and on the right is Loren's dispensing "window," two crates stacked in the doorway of Maira's office. The improvised yet entirely effective setups were a constant reminder that so much of what we consider minimum necessities are nothing of the sort.
Susan treated over 200 patients, many of them needing multiple extractions, with the following equipment: a lawn chair, a set of dental tools (all manual, no power), two plastic basins for the bleach bath, and novocaine. Oh and the high-powered flashlight. Meds for dental patients were ibuprophen and acetominophen, and occasionally a 7-day supply of antibiotics. (less than 10 of the latter were needed.)

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