WE got up at 5 AM to catch the plane to tumaco. Smooth flight, gorgeous natural views. We were welcomed at the Airport by Claudia Kumaromy, a high energy, highly organized local anesthesiologist who is our main contact here.
We had meetings at the hospital to check out the facilitie. We also met at the marine base. A semisecret briefing followed. The area is the base for Plan Colombia, a FDA-supervised operation to spray coca leaves. Gunship helicopters and dust cropers are constantly bussing about. A hughe military presence. Despite the army, however, local drug-lord gangs have a turf war going on. Still Tumaco seems very peaceful. And we have our own motorcycle protection detail.
We unpacked many things and have managed to put all the supplies necessary to start pterygium surgery tomorrow at 7:00 am. We have 30 surgeries planned.
magic moment of today: we were able to piece together ( from previous supplies we brought a few months ago and supplies we brought today) all the things thast we nede to perform pterygium surgery.
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I always think of human’s eyes as a sacred place and now, look what have grown there! A worm :-(
ReplyDeleteGreat job Dr! Life is more meaningful when we see dedicated peoples devote themselves to help others!
More pic pls :-)