Pharmacy Teamwork
At the close of day 2 the team is ready! After early morning wake up calls from the resident roosters and the delightful surprise greeting of a dozen or so hummingbirds surrounding the main porch, the team got to work preparing thousands of meds for distribution over the course of the next few days. Our clinical pharmacists, Tracy & Mai-Chi, did a phenomenal job researching and planning the formulary from which we worked. Thank you, Tracy & Mai-Chi, for the hours of thoughtful care you put into which medications to bring and how much. Your time & effort already communicate how much you care about relieving the suffering of other people, even those whose faces you’ve never seen.
Around mid-day we met two local colleagues who will be joining us tomorrow…Lisa & Karen. Lisa & Karen both live on the island now and will be assisting with the organization and direction of the clinics as well as triage. We’re so thankful to be partnering with them…and it doesn’t hurt that they tell us all the local secrets like where to find great small batch Honduran coffee!
As the day came to a close so did the boxes. Dozens of boxes were taped up, labeled, and set aside to be loaded onto boats early in the morning. We have another early wake up call (we’re counting on you, Hei Hei!) in just a few hours and will finally get to meet the people for whom we’ve come!