Wednesday 4 June, afternoon
Susan in the street outside Comipronil office. "You are not taking a picture of me in scrubs!" In addition to the hard work, we had time to hang out a little with Maira and with Christino, the tech trainer for Comipronil. While we worked Don Tim our fearless guide and guardian angel, spent the morning on his cell phone with Heifer's Tegucigalpa office, trying to get our travel nightmare unscrambled. At this point Toncontin airport was still closed, and we didn't know how we'd get home.
After lunch in La Esperanza we headed back up the mountain road one more time, to the church at Quebrada Honda (which I think means "broken water," eg whitewater?) where Comipronil has built what is essentially a public health office on land donated by the church. In the absence of government services the co-op is doing what it can to provide basic health programs like vaccination and prenatal checkups. The building has three rooms and a porch, which is a fourth room --the waiting room.
The first room is a little pulperia, the equivalent of a convenience store. The other two rooms are used for storage or whatever is needed. We did intake in the pulperia, dispensing in room 2, and the third room was the dentist's surgery.
There was no electricity.
Here's the natural light we were working in:
Here's the same room with flash exposure.
Again, low-tech works just fine.
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