Photos of clinics/communities in Colombia

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Photos from our clinics in Colombia (ref: previous blogs). Candelaria and San Cristobal took place in hospitals with quite modern facilities. Palmira is a community of displaced persons whose city sits 2 inches above sea level and most of the town floods when it rains (in the poorer houses, one of my colleagues visited and found peole walking through inches of standing water inside their homes.) We held the medical, dental and optometric portion of the clinic in a school, with pharmacy and the de-worming stations set up under tarps on the street. They blocked off the streets to allow for crowd control.

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Photos

Getting ready for the clinic at Candelaria
Before they let the patients in

My exam room - Candelaria
Also the Chief Nurse's office

2 Navy doctors wait for patients at San Cristobal
One room - 6 doctors, 5 with interpreters. You can imagine the noise level.

M;y exam space at Palmira
3 clinicians, 2 interpreters and umpteen patients in this schoolroom (at least the electricity came on around 1 pm so we had a fan!)

Houses in Palmira
The city is 2 inches above sea level. The poorer one is, the more often the house is flooded.

Drier houses in Palmira
It's all relative, though. And no one has sanitation.