Thursday was our best day at the clinic yet

In terms of numbers of patients seen, we had 503 come through the door of the church for treatment.  It was busy all day long, we were only able to take short breaks before we had to work on bottlenecks in one area of the clinic or another.   Triage was full all day.  Around 10:30, a teacher named Immanuel brought about 40 students over from a nearby school.  This could have really turned the clinic upside down, but we had seen something like this before at Kibera a few years earlier.  We had the children wait while we setup their own “exam room”. We put an eyechart up on the wall of the parsonage and a lot of chairs on the lawn for them.  While they waited to be examined, William taught them a few songs and kept them occupied.  I got some great pictures of the whole thing and will post them when we get back.   Dr. Lilian quickly was able to screen out those kids that needed distance glasses.  Then, she diagnosed which ones had allergies and other eye conditions we could treat.  We used the autorefractors on the kids that needed glasses and Dr. Lilian worked with the other eye issues.

I was in the triage station a lot today, with Laura and Ralph and other team members helped as they could.  There were many moving stories and many tearful prayers.  I even had one Muslim man that had seen me and been treated by our clinic there in 2011 end up seeing me again.  Wow!  We got him some new reading glasses to replace the old ones that had grown too weak.  He was still a Muslim when he left, but I gave him more information on Jesus to think about and we parted friends.  Witnessing can take years, but it has eternal rewards for those that finally listen and believe the simple message we carry.  Maybe I’ll see him again in a couple of years. 

We were supposed to have dinner here at Rosa Mystica with Catherine, her mother and Eugene, but Catherine’s day got too busy.  Laura, Ralph and I ate at Rosa Mystica and the rest of the group went to eat in the Junction Mall.  It’s about time for bed, more to follow after our last day of the clinic tomorrow.