Our final day of clinic was bound to be a busy one. The evening before, Bac Si Ha approached me and asked if our Pharmacy team would be willing to travel to the clinic early starting at 6:45 am in order to get an early start for an anticipated record breaking day. When we arrived, the waiting area was packed , busier than any previous day. Before lunch we treated 155 patients with a variety of condition such as a broken patella (see x-ray and knee) and an amputee missing both his left arm and leg due to a land mine injury. After a brief lunch, we started the second half of our day. By 5:00 PM see treated an astonishing 250 medical patients, including this child who was born with the aftermath of his family being exposed to dioxin (Agent Orange) from the war, and this quite severe bilateral heel spur causing crippling pain.
Today, we left no patient untreated.
After patient #250, I turned to Bac Si Ha and said, "I saved up 11 months of energy for this mission and I think I just spent it al on the last patient"!
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