Remember that young man that jumped down a tree, landing squarely on his machete?  Well, he came back the other day for a checkup and things are looking great! Seems like it is healing up very well! Michael and Anita examining the cut: They decided to keep some stitches in, since it was still wanting […]

There have been so many incidents with picks you would almost wonder if there was a serial-picker going around, causing mayhem and panic amongst the inhabitants of Aleg. Well, it turns out, there is no one person inflicting all these injuries: with everyone working their gardens, it’s just Murphy’s law in full motion! 🙂 As you might

Once in a while I like to get inside people’s days and see what goes on; hear how they feel about it and what makes their job, well… their job!This time I asked Breanna (one of our nurses down here) to write about her everyday life in the clinic and give us some perspective on

Anita doing consultations in her room. Mis Joceline also doing consultations in her room.  Zita (Madam Jon Marc) helps out in the pharmacy. The waiting room 🙂 

It was promising to be a nice, relaxed Saturday evening with supper being finished and the dishes washed. We were about to settle down into a time of fellowship when we heard the distinct sound of tapping at the gate. The sun had just disappeared behind the mountain, still radiating and we could see several

A lady came into the clinic the other day with severe pain in her stomach.  We were not able to definitively diagnose her condition, so she was taken out to the hospital in town.  We think it might have been some sort of abdominal infection. Thankfully Grandpa was planning on going out that day anyway,

As I walked into the clinic today I was called into Michael’s exam room for an interesting look at something… When I entered, Michael was bent over a lady’s ear, peering inside with his otoscope. I asked what the problem with her was and he motioned to some gauze sitting on his table. I shuddered

This young man was walking down the mountainside and stepped on a loose rock- The resulting fall and injuries merited 3 stitches and multiple bandages! He seemed grateful enough for the medical aid 🙂 Some lacerations on his leg. As the young man was getting patched back up a lady came on a stretcher. At

Yes, you guessed it- another incident with a pick! This time two brothers were working in their family garden. The older of the two was working with a pick and the younger was working the ground with his hands. In the process of time, the older lost control of his pick, sending it sailing through

This phrase has it’s origins in old tradition, going as far back as ancient Persian culture (though in Persian, literally translated, it was “finger’s tip rule”) and is found in old English writings dating back to 1685… yet it still holds much meaning in our modern-day speech. It’s typically used to describe a principle- one