| in africa i can give out meds |
 in africa i can give out meds
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Aug. 7th, 2007 @ 03:56 pm 
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 people lining up at reception
 me giving meds
 the school where the clinic is held
I volunteered for the second time at a Health Clinic in the poor, desert area of my region (state). This time instead of alternating between condom demonstrations and giving medication my job was as a pharmacist. Deborah (Canadian who runs 'The Olive Branch Orphanage') organized it so that there are two doctors, one for each room. The doctor sees the patient and then writes out a prescription. My job was to then fill the prescription with the right dosage and explain how and when to take the medicine in Swahili to the patients. My room saw about 250 people (7:30 am to 5 pm). The frustrating times are when you have an old women who can't read, here with her 6 grandkids, all of which have to take their own medicines......you do the best you can drawing figures to explain the directions and informing then to ask a neighbor to help then read some parts. And then all the children who came to the clinic by themselves. I couldn't help but think of how I am handing them medicine that if used improperly could do some damage but they children seemed much more mature then their years.
But I enjoyed volunteering and treated myself to some ice cream later that night and then passed out from exhaustion (we had to wake up at 5 am to be at the site in time) |
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