Meet the Officers!

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  1. Welcome to Honduras!

  2. Locals

  3. Front view of our dormitory

  4. Our compound was on the mountainside 2 hours from rural Sartenejas, where we had our brigade

  5. View!

  6. Dining tent

  7. Tasty

  8. Before the actual clinic, we had to sort and label all of our donations and medicine in order to easily find it all

  9. School that we ran our clinic out of

  10. Local community members were required to help guide people through the clinic

  11. Before the patient saw a doctor, they went through intake and triage

  12. Here we asked them about their problems and took their blood pressure, temperature, and blood glucose for diabetics

  13. Triage 2

  14. Triage 3

  15. Next, they went to consult with the doctor

  16. We get to shadow the Honduran doctors

  17. We had a dental station after this, for patients who wanted it

  18. Dental station

  19. Before getting their medicine, all children have to go to charla where they learn about hygiene and good health practices

  20. Fluent Spanish speakers are very helpful!

  21. How to brush your teeth

  22. Pharmacy station

  23. Getting medicine for patients

  24. On our last brigade day, we got to try an architecture brigade. We built a retaining wall by packing old tires with dirt and stacking them.

  25. UCSD GMB 2012