Clinic - Limon

Limon is a community established by Samaritians purse after Hurricane Mitch 1998.  The comunity has grown to over 10,000 from the original 700 family homes.  The Great Commision Church found many cases of malnutrition in the children of the community due to single family homes without a male to support the family and due to lack of education.  In response the church established a nutrition center and day care operation for children.  Our team opened the medical clinic to the families with children being served by the center, and the staff of the facility on Monday afternoon.  The response was somewhat overwhelming, as you might imagine.  Our plan to have multiple stations staffed by our team and translators including  Registration, Triage, Evangelism, Doctor Consultation, Eye Glass distribution, and pharmacy worked great.  Crowd control, especially managing the children, was a challenge that we will work to improve on today.  The clinic opened at 2:00 and when we finished with the last patient at 6:20pm we had seen 77 patients.