Day 3

While walking in to clinic this morning we already had many of the clinic patients getting their eyes dialated before they go through the auto refractor.
Alberto using his charm to entertain the children at the auto refractor.
Rachel and I were one of the people that worked the IMS station today. This is a tedious role as you pain stakingly enter prescription after prescription in to the computers to see what we have in our stock that best matches the individuals prescription. The clinic saw over 1550 people today so as you can imagine it can be very mentally tiring trying to find matches of that magnitude. One very unique case came to our station. It was for a male that had no vision in his left eye and script of -14 in his right.His slip said that it was for a congenital defect. We both thought that we would have a difficult time filling such a high prescription,but to our surprise we came up with a match when we ran it in our data base. We had a pair of glasses in our stock that matched and thought it would be worth running to dispensing to see who was the recipient that would be getting this pair. When Rachel got to dispensing she presented them to a 14 year old boy who was standing there with no shoes and it appeared that he hadn't been wearing shoes in quite awhile. He did not go to school and resorted to begging in the streets. This boy was extremely shy but when he put on his glasses the interpreter asked what he saw, he was able to look at the ambulance parked across the street and could tell that the ambulance driver was wearing a red shirt. this boy has never owned a pair of glasses and has not been able to see anything beyond basic light and shapes through his one good eye. I'm sure that this will be quite an adjustment to this boys life view all the new images that will becoming in to his world.

Bahgat showing off the small fortune of money that he collected from us to have exchanged in to Cordoba. He didn't want to give it back but he relented when we told him we wouldn't let him off the bus until he did. ;-)