Hospital Un Canto a la Vida

Pediatric Patient waiting at clinic

After 20 hours of travel, CAMTA Team 1 arrived in Quito late Friday night. They were welcomed at the hotel with fresh fruit and juice. A quick snack and everyone was off to their rooms to unpack and sleep.

The real work started with the Sunday Clinic. The advance team arrived at the new hospital, Hospital Un Canto a la Vida, at 8:30AM and had three pediatric and three adult patients ready to go by 9:50AM.

Nelly - Chief social worker at Tierra Nueva Un Canto a la Vida

Mother and child waiting to be seen in Sunday clinic

Pediatric nursing exam in progress at CAMTA Sunday Clinic

Physio Kate Pronovost describes appropriate post-op precautions

Indigenous patient with problem with Barb Moreau and Aline Young, Dan Ducholke

Adults waiting for assessment at Sunday Clinic

CAMTA clinic -- pediatric patient and Aline Young

While those surgeries progressed, other team members prepared the patient list for Monday's surgeries. It was a long first day -the adult surgeons were seeing patients until 5:30PM and the pediatric team didn't finish until 7PM.

Dr. Lou Lawton with patient

The new hospital offers much larger areas for clinics, work space and storage and two operating rooms. As expected some procedures used at the previous hospital, Tierra Nueva, will need to be adapted for our new location. The team is devising efficient methods for storage and flow of surgical materials. The instrument cleaning area is small and is shared with the Tierra Nueva staff, but we are working well together.