First Village Clinic Day

I had an opportunity to snag some time on WiFi at the hospital today. We continue to work at base camp to get restocked for tomorrow's village clinic visit. We were in the field bright and early the first day. It was a long day: 7:30am to 11pm. Photos of the day to follow.

There is so much amazing information to pass on, and we've already consolidated 100's of photos and lots of video from our individual cameras; we've chosen a few to pass along to you. Here is a link to an album of our journey to Mali.

Rest assured we are well-cared for by the mission and hospital staffs (no dangers, minimum risk) and we are all well. Dan Nesselroade and Brett McClan (the medical directors) cannot join us tomorrow due to viruses. It will be a bigger challenge without them.

We saw 480 patients (1/3 adults and 2/3 children) in 6 hours yesterday. We're returning to that location tomorrow, a 'hub' village that supports 11 surrounding villages and a total of about 16,000 people. There is no telling how many will come. Continue to pray.

I am activating SPOT Locator links to track our location as we move about. You can click "Satellite" and zoom in to see where we are. Here is our current location in Koutiala. Here is the hub village, Bobola Zangasso, where we worked yesterday and will work again tomorrow.

Gotta go for now...

The Mali Medical Team
Vaughan