Packing for Kenya today! I am traveling with medical missions kenya and hunger relief. (http://medicalmissionskenya.org/site/). I am traveling with Michael and Chris. Michael traveled to El Salvador with me and has been looking forward to traveling to Kenya also. Chris is a local pharmacist who works for TOPs and we are very excited to be traveling with her. She will definitely be a guide in regards to pharmacy knowledge. We leave on Tuesday.
While in Kenya we are also doing a research project. W will screen as many people as we can for high blood pressure and diabetes. We will be collected data of undiagnosed hypertension and diabetes and comparing it to El Salvador and India. As part of the research project we are educating them on non pharmacological methods to prevent these diseases. We are also modifying brochures to have Kiswahili translation to leave with patients.
The coolest thing about this trip is the leader, milli, is from Kenya and it will be like going to Kenya through a back door. Very different from the GHO El Salvador trip. When we get there we are actually going to her brothers house. We will have 2 doctors and a bunch of nurses traveling with us. Oh and my priest, father Paul, will be in Nairobi the first week of June! He is from kenya as well and is very excited we are going. He gave mike and I a phone nu more to contact him but I don't think we will have time to meet up. H offered to take us to his mothers house which would be a very cool trip but I think we are going to be very busy.
A couple days on the trip we are doing a chiggers and jiggers removal. Not too excited about that part. I'll be in another spot at the clinic, maybe giving out socks to patients who just got some removed.
Can't wait to sit on the plane for 17 hrs and finally make it to Kenya!
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