Medical clinic, San Jorge la laguna.

Every year the organization , Helps, comes to the University in Solola to do a big medical clinic. They operate and they perform many miracles.
Helps has asked us for the past three years to organize clinics for them in San Jorge.
They like to give the medical team a chance to experience what it is like to be in the rural villages.
We are always happy to accomodate and arrange a clinic for this group.
We had only a few days notice but there were plenty of people who turned up for the clinic.
We even drove twice to San Jorge taking patients from Panajachel who thought that they needed to put on the list for an operation.
This is the first year that all we have done is to take the tables, sheets, chairs, advertise and organize and the clinic . Usually , we staff the clinic all day with Mayan families employees. But this yearGloria and Vicente from Mayan Families stayed half day to make sure all was going well, then they left it in the hands of members of the Womens group. We are very pleased to say that the women from the Womens group were very comfortable translating Kakchiquel to Spanish and were very helpful to the doctors. '
It is really great to know that they have had enough experience now with medical groups that they felt very confident to be able to do it by themselves. It is great to be working ourselves out of a job!