So I just got back from a trip to the village of Joudant. It is about an hour and a half from Jeremie. The drive there was beautiful, which was good because the speedometer never went over 20 mph. Out one side of the car you could see the ocean (it was so clear, I half expected to see Cuba) and out the other side of the car you saw mountains. From all of these drives out to rural health posts I can definitely say that the Haitian proverb "beyond mountains there are mountains" is true!
The post today was set up in a cockfighting arena, which basically is just a few rows of circular bleachers set up in the middle of the forest. After I finished talking to some of the women who were there for prenatal care I got to help with some of the medical care. I took blood pressures on everyone waiting and then I gave children polio and DPT vaccines. I felt bad because we only had adult size needles for infants and toddlers, but these kids took it like champs. They cried a lot less than American kids do!
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