Primary Health Care Outreaches with Cathy

I'm not sure if I wrote earlier in this blog about the primary health classes and outreaches we've been doing for the past month or so. Cathy, who is a missionary PA and has her masters in Primary Health, has been our amazing teacher and instructor! We've been having two classes a week, and then on Saturdays we go out and do medical outreaches to put into practice what we've learned. We would contact churches in the extremely poor areas of town, and would then set up a clinic there for anyone needing medical attention or for anyone with complaints or concerns. As students, we would get the patients history, do a physical examination and attempt to diagnosis the problem. Cathy would then evaluate our assessment. For certain complications we had a pharmacy set up that we could dispense medication for treatment. Otherwise we would either talk to them about lifestyle changes or inform them that their problem was beyond our scope of care. It was definitely a good challenging and often quite overwhelming- but we learned so much! At one clinic we saw around 200 patients!
Here are a few of the pictures from some of the outreaches....

On our first outreach, one of the first patients happened to be a little boy that I had delivered last year! What a a surprise!!! :)
Lots and lots of people! :)
The amazing Cathy!! :)
Caring for a baby with Impetigo
Our little pharmacy we took turns running :) We gave away free meds after the person was prayed for by Filipino Christians from the church there
Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan :) :)
The most important/essential part of the outreaches