Here's Gayle Hiebert. Gayle is a family doctor from Edmonton and she has just silently worked away on the ward caring for the post-operative patients and the occasional sick staff member. Gayle will now leave for RioBamba and a project with a local doctor. Mary Hurlburt is a week two family doctor who has just returned from RioBamba.
Eve Moreau
Eve is our local "logistics coordinator". She lives in Quito and has coordinated a lot of advance preparation. Eve is a grade 10/10 translator and has worked "continualmente" at the hospital.
Here's an x-ray of adult osteoarthritis. Look at the hip socket on the right. You can see that there is a definite line between the ball and the socket. Then look at the hip on the left side of the x-ray. That's actually the right hip but note there is no joint line. Osteoarthritis has eroded the cartilage and it's bone on bone! Ouch!
I have to show you this shot. It's not a simple matter of getting the patient from the recovery room to the ward on the second floor. The keys are on the second floor in the hand of the charge nurse for Tierra Nueva. Then once our nurse picks up the keys she gives them to the security guard and he calls the elevator and accompanies the patient up to the second floor. It's a tight fit in that little elevator!
Then Eileen and I dropped in on Daniel Vega Moreno. He's recovering well after a very difficult surgery. The Lethbridge operating room staff are donating as a group to support his long course of post-operative antibiotics. More on this later --- Our two Lethbridge nurses for week one were Pauline Vatcher and Bernie Johnston.
And so faithful viewers that is week one completed. Today after ward rounds there are two opportunities -- one bus is taking the week two people who arrived last night up to Otavalo. Another bus leaves for nature viewing - birds and botany - at 12 noon.
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John on behalf of every member of CAMTA
Great work - keep it up.
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