Well today was my first day at el centro de salud en Bajos de Chila and it was a decent day. Chila has a much bigger centro than Manialtepec did and there were even more patients waiting to be seen as well. Chila as a pueblo does not any have any sort of plumbing sytem or any runnign water. Today my job was much different than last week as I was sent out with my friend Valeria to check the water condition in every house surrounding the clinic. We were assisting with a project of el centro that is called "Patios Limpios" or clean patios. This is a vector control project for the community that promotes the knowledge and control Dengue (a serious diseased carried by moscos). So we would go to each house and ask to see where their water supply was (normally a large bucket or two) and check for larvae etc. We then used a chart to note the condition of the patio- cleanliness, if there was orderliness to it, if there was a lot of overgrowth of weeds etc. Finally, of their water source had any larvae in it (which MOST of them had MANY of them) we instructed them to go to el centro to get a free tablet to put in there to kill and prevent more eggs from hatching in their, thus preventing more dengue and other illness-causing mosquitoes.
This task took most of the morning was interesting but pretty repetitive work. It was very nice to go out and really meet the people in the pueblo though. I did find out that next week I will be in the hospital de Puerto Escondido and I really hope to encounter much more women's health problems there and deliver me some babies!!
This task took most of the morning was interesting but pretty repetitive work. It was very nice to go out and really meet the people in the pueblo though. I did find out that next week I will be in the hospital de Puerto Escondido and I really hope to encounter much more women's health problems there and deliver me some babies!!
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