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| Students practicing suturing |
Thursday started with a 6:00 am hike up the mountain near the
training center. The westerners had shoes and lights as we were lead by our
translators. However, in the dark we lost the trail briefly. It was one of the
students who caught up to us in his flip-flops that took the lead to get us
back on the trial.
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| Timothy, Susan, Jeff, Abraham, Hkaw Taik on the mountain. |
After that it was an exciting morning learning how to
suture. Dr. Susan McDowell taught the students with foam sheets and then moved
on to pig’s feet. This is always a favorite activity of the students. We are
always impressed at how quickly they pick this skill up compared to medical
students in the west. The students are very good with their hands and many of
them know how to mend clothes. This may be why they learn this skill so
well.
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| Doctors teaching suturing wile being projected overhead. |
We finished up on the prenatal and childbirth chapter in the
afternoon and took a few survey questions using the ARS (Audience Response
System). We found out that it is farther for the villagers to walk to a health
center than to walk to get a soda pop like coca cola. This is not surprising but a sad
statement of how things are developing all around the world. We also found out
that the people have a low opinion of the health clinics regardless of how far
away they are. The clinics are often not fully staffed, may have intermittent
power, and prescribed medication can be expensive for the villagers.
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| Dr. McDowell teaching suturing. |
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