Tanzania Medical Team, Tues., June 24, 2008 part two

Dear all,
Just a note to let you know what is going on. This was our last day working clinic at a small villiage which is just about 10 miles off the main black top. It has been incredible...we saw about 240 patients yesterday and about the same amount today and about 150 the first day... unfortunately we had to send some people away. We did send them with vitamins and abendezole ( for worms). We gave everyone we saw both of these also. I did triage, or check in. It was great. I had a great translator, Edward. Asbury has established relationships with so many different folks. The women all are so beautiful...the children even more. Most everyone wears flip flops or no shoes. Lots of diseases that we would never see in Oklahoma. Leprosey, elephantitus, weird lesions and weird stuff. Gregg Hill is doing awesome at leading our team. He got his bag today and had to go into Morogoro to get it because it was delivered there mistakenly. We got hot water and clear water in the single girls showers. Yeah!!! It was red dirt before. Our pharmacist gave a soccer ball ( he brought several) to some kids at the school close to where we worked. There soccer ball was plastic bags tied and wrapped together about the size of a big grapefruit. We also heard from another group that is here about going to a Masai Village ...3800 masai, fed them, a christian masai, held the attention and went thru the crowd and blessed 2000 of them. Several gave life to Jesus. It sounded like a real miracle...reminded me of Jesus feeding the 4000.

Well, it is still like stepping into a national geographic magazine, but not so glamorous...today I just started telling women with babies to boil water before giving to children and give them lots more. Most everyone is dehydrated...it has been a blessing of huge amounts to me and all on our team. They just need more soap and water and mosquito nets.

Love to all,
Ruthie