Here is a picture of Lisa at her government clinic in Chuabaj. These are her partner nurses Claraluz and Anabella. Claraluz has been training Anabella in the mountains of paperwork and will be leaving at the end of the month.
Chuabaj is a town of about 3000 people and is about 30 minutes from Chichi and there is a small church of Christ in town. People have been very cordial and welcoming. In addition to consults and paperwork she gets to give educational talks to midwives and will be meeting with the local teachers as well as the local municipal committee to discuss health issues in the area. In the end she will present an overall report about the health status in the town of Chuabaj.
Monday and Today we had some pretty uneventful clinics - Gracias a Dios! Our guests Rugel and Connie continue to be in good health and are great.
I guess the most eventful thing that has happened is that at the Clinic in Lemoa today was we discovered that our latrines are filling up. We did not expect this as we dug them 10-12 meters deep; however, since we have been receiving more than normal rainfall the ground is extremely saturated and since our latrine is a little more downhill the water is leaking in through the ground into the latrines. You can actually see the water seeping out of the wall of the latrine into the pit. One latrine only has about 2 meters left, so pray for less rain! We are not sure what we will do yet but we do have a pump and hopefully we can get a firehose in a pinch! Luckily the latrines are somewhat new.....
The rain is actually causing quite a bit of problems around Guatemala including more mudslides which have resulted in buried houses and some deaths. We have not had many mudslides here but we have heard of some pretty bad ones in and around Guatemala City in the neighborhoods that are on the sides of the valleys. Here we mostly see corn crops that have fallen due to the soft ground as the roots are not able to hold the weight of the corn.
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