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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Good times/Bad times

 
 
 
 
Recently Julton Tomanguillo and Julie Rodgers were married here in Trujillo. Julie is a former intern from W. Virginia
and Julton is our new MD at the clinic, a young man recently out of med school. We went to their wedding and can
tell God will bless them and use them in a great way both here in Peru and in the states.
In the midst of this joy we have always the sick with us. The photos are of a young girl brought down by her father
from the mountains in need of health care. Sonia our OB nurse did the initial exam and sent the girl of 14 years for an ultrasound. The results were not good; she has a rapidly growing tumor on her ovary. You can see from the photos how much her abdomen is already distended. So we have collected some money, and Saturday I and Agnes will go donate some blood for her surgery on Monday. We expect the total cost of all her tests and hospitization to be about $1000, money which the clinic does not have. A television channel came out to film her and request donations, so I thought I would do the same. If you would like to help write a check to CMS and designate it "Clinic patient fund".
And please pray, the dianosis is not good for this young girl...even with the surgery.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Great news!

Yesterday was supposed to be the final inspection of our clinic by the ministry of health. Early in the morning I arrived at the offices and awaited Dr. Raul our chief doctor. When he arrived the secretary in charge of inspections said that a final inspection was not necessary and that she could sign the papers that day! So hopefully by the next two week we will officially receive our license to operate as a clinic and be completely legal! It really is miraculous seeing that this lady told a few weeks ago that she did not know when we would have our final inspection since the inspection team is not functioning right now...the previous delay between inspections was a year and a half/! But we feel God intervened and moved this lady to sign the papers..