House visits

Here are a couple of pictures of Eveling (a medical student) and me going around to families in the Sabaneta community, spreading information and medication. Eveling did most of the work, but I helped out with distributing and explaining information sheets and dividing up the medications. We went house-to-house checking to see if anyone was ill or symptomatic. We did encounter several folks who had or had had fevers, and families that already had sent someone to the local health outpost ("puesto de salud"). The first picture is from one of the first houses we visited. The trash bags on the floor were full of medications that we distributed. We visited 17 houses, documenting everyone in living in each house and their health, as well as whether they had sick animals or not. The last picture is from one of the last families we visited. We visited houses until we ran out of medication for adults. There were some communication and planning problems afterwards and we didn't get to distribute any more in the late afternoon.