After an early wake up with the roosters and a hearty breakfast our teams were ready to go. The Campos teams headed Southwest towards the Haitian border near El Cercado and the OR teams set up clinics for morning consultations and scrubbed in this afternoon for some surgeries.
The Campos team saw about 125 patients today spanning the ages of 6 month to 70 year olds. Dr. Cindy Johns and Suzanne Fischer mainly handled the adults while Dr. Russ Delaney learned how to navigate pediatric treatment while out in the countryside. Vitamins were provided for each patient along with additional treatments as needed by Teri Bryant. The team of nurses and translators, foreign and domestic, were also a great help.
At the clinic Dr. Mann, Waldrop, and Hagans all had orthopedic consultations and scheduled about 12 casees. They have nearly filled their schedules for the week and only have a few slots left for Thursday afternoon cases. Today the nurses & doctors saw many trauma injuries as well as congenital deformities.
All the while Bob Williams and David Rupp, the president of Solid Rock Missions, were touring the surrounding neighborhoods lead by Corra Hunse. Corra is involved with the Child Nutrition Program and was showing them the long-term, positive results of the program that are really beginning to develop. They made one stop to see a family of 17 children and thanks to the program, which is going strong, those children were able to receive the nutritional assistance that their family would not have been able to afford otherwise.
Dr. Hagan with his patient who had an extra digit removed.
Dr. Mann on a consultation.
The man who had hernia surgery was being well taken care of by the nurses in the recovery room.
The Campos team posing in front of the breathtaking view from the clinic site of the day.
The intake area where nurses Denise Revercome and Anna Faber took vitals and Liz Tolland translated. 
Visiting the family of 17 children benefiting from the Child Nutrition Program near El Cercado.
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