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Re: Day 2: Network Topology and Coffee Farm
by Captain Fantastic on Tuesday May 09, 2000 @ 04:49 AM

Hey Hey, Ignacio.. glad you made it OK to Guatemala. Sounds like you have things in hand and are making progress. Read your postings with interest - makes me want to grab my old EMS 'jump bag' and do some in-the-field basic medical care. What is the situation with basic medical services where you are at presently? I remember the statistic that 90 percent of patients benefit significantly from basic medical care, as opposed to the belief that more advanced care is needed by the population to benefit significantly as a whole. Is that true of the population where you are at?

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Re: Day 2: Network Topology and Coffee Farm
by Saint on Thursday May 11, 2000 @ 06:05 PM

I am writing this from an Internet Cafe here in Antigua. The keyboard is much different in the U.S. To answer your question, I will know more next week, but judging from what I have seen in the hospital so far, there are many who have no care at all. Yesterday 300 people showed up in a village to receive care, with capacity only to treat 100. There is much poverty here so there are many without health care. The rich (or more rich, it is relative) do have care, but lab samples get run to the lab by family members, etc. I know this first hand because we are staying with a family that lives behind a beauty shop that they run, and their father had something wrong (unclear whether it is heart, or infection, probably heart) and I did a quickie assessment. These are my first impressions, I ll tell you more next week. IV

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