Thursday, November 06, 2008

Medical mission in El Horno

We took media out to our humanitarian medical mission in El Horno Wednesday. Our medical team worked out there with a Honduran team Tuesday and Wednesday and saw about 650 patients. The village was only about five minutes away by helicopter, but it would have taken three hours to drive there -- it's up in the mountains. Some people walked more than five hours to see a doctor.

I didn't get many pictures of our people treating patients because I was escorting media and not there to shoot photos. I brought my little personal camera and did shoot a few photos of the people and the village.

This is a couple of boys looking in the window of the school where the doctors were treating some minor ailments.

Boys in window

I saw these three children waiting in front of the school.

Three children

This is a Honduran military doctor seeing some patients, and the next is a Honduran dentist extracting a tooth.

El Horno MEDRETE
El Horno MEDRETE

The dentists worked out of the village church.

El Horno MEDRETE

Here's a few shots around El Horno:

El Horno
Building
El Horno

And, finally, shots from the inside of the helicopter on the flight back to base:

Flight deck
Leaving Soto Cano

That's the base outside the window on the photo above.

2 comments:

Kika82 said...

I miss being operational!!! I sit at my desk and decorate walls!

Anonymous said...

You take such good pictures! The kids tell me that congratulations are in order. You look happy in your pictures so I'm very happy for you! Are you getting married in Vegas? There are unlimited possiblities to make it loads of fun. Congrats and be happy :)