a patient at La Tremblay

healing the children

Dr. Elysee Edmond and Dr. Penina Edmond

the pharmacy.

Sister Edith watching Dr. Elysee treat her mother

a report from team member Dr. Elysee Edmond, M.D.
see a slideshow from the day here

December 3 clinic at the St. François d'Assise orphanage in La Tremblay

We got to the orphanage around 8: 30 AM. First we unloaded our medical stuff from the SantéBus and set up a tent for the pharmacy. The bus will need repairs before the next mobile clinic. We used a classroom to examine the patients because there is a primary and secondary school at the orphanage. This school welcomes any students from the community. We started seeing patients around 9:30 AM. We were a team of four doctors myself Dr ELysee Edmond , my wife Dr Penina Edmond , Dr Gloria Thermidor a fourth year medical student and Dr Ruth Gracien a second year medical school student. We saw about 250 patients .We had four helpers, a young guy named Jean Gardy as our photographer and three Catholic sisters (Sister Edith, Sister Ladouceur and Sister Alma) who are in charge of the orphanage. Two sisters were in the pharmacy and Sister Edith the head of the orphanage was in the exam room with me. You can see that at the pictures.

This orphanage belongs to the Catholic community named St. François d'Assise and it accommodates about 80 girls from 3 years old to around 20 year old. I saw one old lady of 81 years old who is the mother of Sister Edith who is in charge of the orphanage. She had arthritis, and hypertension. Take a look at the pictures you will a sister and me helping an old lady. That was amazing.

The place is big, this is why we divided our patients into two categories, first the kids from the orphanage that I personally saw and the patients from the neighborhood. Eighty percent of our patients were girls and young ladies and 95 % of the girls from the orphanage were complaining of abdominal pain. It is obvious that most of the kids from the orphanage were sick. The most common diseases were Genitourinary infection, skin fungal infection, scabies, impedigo, infection with Tinea capitis, upper respiratory tract infection, hypertension, diarrhea, asthma, anemia, cataract, gastritis, arthritis GERD, parasites.

The most common causes of the skin infection, the genitourinary infection and upper respiratory tract infection are the WATER and dust according to every single member of this community even the Sisters incriminate the water as the potential source of infection.
The sisters were very happy and they told me their doors are opened for me any time. We left the place around 3:30 PM. It was a blessing to help the people from the La Tremblay community specially the girls form the orphanage. It was a very successful mobile clinic. The Lord always guides us to the needy places.