DaNang 3/15/07

Here we are finished with the second day of clinic. Murt, Tien, Tri and I got to Danang on Friday afternoon 3/9/07, the whole team arrived on Sunday evening. The medicines got here to the hotel the day before we got here last Thursday,but were in sealed storage. Apparently after a year of working with the Vietnamese contact to get permissions for the mission, we still have many hoops to jump over. We were not allowed to get to the med until Tuesday PM 3/13/07. Finally after pulling many teeth we got the med and got ready for our mission. We started our first clinic yesterday in a clinic about a half hour drive from the city. We examined and gave med to more than 400 patients. Most of the patient were malnutrition, ache and pain, hypertensive, and GI problems. Most team member brought many gifts for the children. We also purchased sugar to give to the people, 100US dollars purchase over 500 pounds of sugar for each day of clinic. We drove an hour into the mountain today and set up at two different locations, in the AM we saw about 150 people and the PM were about 200. People are sicker and poorer in the highland.
This is the first time I can get to the Internet. There are many pictures from the clinic, but the connection are not able to handle the download. We will try again soon. The beaches are beautiful here, unfortunately the hotel's beach smell bad because of the sewage system closed by. Guess what...you cannot swim in it.