Medical Clinics

For the past two weekends 2Five2 has been hosting a medical clinic outreach in the communities of Prek Pneu and Phnom Penh Thmei.  There has been months of planning, budgeting, meeting, and gathering supplies and volunteers.  But in the end it was all worth it.  Our first clinic was on Sunday, November 4th in Phnom Penh Thmei at the Logos campus.  The students and families from the 2Five2 program were invited in to have acute medical care and receive public health education.  On that day the medical team we partnered with were able to see just over 300 people!

 Patient Registration.

 

Patient care.

Overview of the clinic.

Our wonderful 2Five2 Phnom Penh Thmei staff that volunteered.

 

 

Then we resumed again on Saturday, November 10th with a health education clinic to the public school in Prek Pneu.  Here 4 doctors and their translators went to the Primary School campus and taught classes on nutrition, drinking clean water, wound care, oral hygiene, and disease prevention.  The school has over 1,100 students with an average of 50 kids per class, so it was such a blessing for them to get this training.  Students also received some Vitamin A as well as a horrible tasting (which was very apparent in their faces) de-worming pill.

 



And yesterday we finished the medical outreach with our largest clinic in the village of Prek Pneu.  Similar to the one in Phnom Pneh Thmei this team of 25 doctors and nurses taught and treated 366 patients that live in this community!  Many living here do not have access to health care so for most this was the first time they have seen a doctor before. At the end of these 10 days I find myself tired and excited for our upcoming holiday in a few weeks, but also filled with joy as we saw their thankful and smiling faces (even after getting teeth pulled!) leaving the clinic site.

Waiting to see the doctors and dentists.

Getting their vitals checked.

First doctor station.

 Our wonderful 2Five2 Prek Pneu staff and volunteers.