Well, as mentioned in the past blog, the MET program started this last week with the students in language school. They arrived at Clinica Ezell on Friday and started a few days of orientation on Guatemala, missiology, medical evanglism and information regarding the areas we work, what we do, what are our objectives, etc. On Monday the team from Chichi (Dr. Josefina, Dr. Marcos and Sheri K. RN all arrived to have some extra time with the MET students and our other professional team from Clinic Ezell - Drs. Walter, David, Silvia and Jessica and Carlos, our director here in Guatemala. This year we have 10 students and strange enough 5 who write left handed. Pretty amazing to see so many left handers and a small group. We enjoyed the time together and hopefully helped ease some of their nervousness of moving in with families, etc.
Tuesday morning everyone headed out to their families with the Chichi folks getting to the homes around 4 or 5pm. Check out Sheri's blog for more info - www.sheriinguate.blogspot.com. She has some good pictures of the group. Unfortunately, I was not able to join them as I had to return to the Capital to pick up Lisa from her surgery call.
Also on Tuesday we had a visit of some Biomed Techs that Dennis from Vine International helped us coordinate. These folks, Monte, Dennis 1, Dennis 2 and Dennis' 2 daughter (feel bad I cannot remember her name) provided us an excellent service of repairing 2 autoclaves (and showing our local fix it guy how to repair another), a couple of patient monitors, a bunch of blood pressure cuffs (and showed our staff how to fix in the future), revised our surgical equipment, including providing maintenance to all of the anesthesia machines. We are extremely grateful for the help they provided. Dennis 2 is the director of MedEquip Missions and Monte came with them from Samaritans Purse. What a great service! Today they are off to visit Dr. Sergio Castillo in Chocola who used to work with HTI as well.
Also, today is a big day for Dr. Marcos Lux, the dentist who works for us. He is getting honored as a new member of the Dentistry Association today here in Guatemala City. During this program he receives a pin that is very special to the profession here. We are extremely proud of his accomplishments and even more proud of his commitment to our Lord and our ministry.
Lisa is counting down her surgery rotation - just 5 days left and one call night! Pray that she gets assigned a good rotation for June when she starts internal medicine. Specifically we are praying for "consulta externa" which is a clinic based rotation and in reality will be the best place she can offer her diagnosing and treatment skills.
God bless and have a great week!
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