Final Day of Clinic

The Optometrists jumping for joy as they finish the last patient of the clinic and have cleared the small classroom that was crammed with patients

Our final day of clinic, Day 9 back in San Lurigancho on the foothill slopes of the Andes to help the people of San Franisco district.  An end of the road community mission run by two Irish Sisters. There is just enough altitude to get out of the high mist and cloud that covers Lima and the western slopes of the Andes this time of year.

Stacey, first off the bus and first to attack the registration line next to the road

Rodger and Derrick complete the setup of the dispensary in a small court, The altar from the sparcely furnished church next door doubles as a dispensing table for tools, thankfully the court is covered from the Andean sun.

Marina checking the eye health of an elder

Doug, Brenda and Sharon have no shade from the sun in distance visual acuities, eye charts are taped to the church wall and the single canopy we have gives cover for the testing patients

Thousands of eyeballs since day 1,  David motors through with our Nikon Retinomax autorefactor.  Tough job when you are taller than your patient.

Dr. Karin, writing out a prescription for this elderly lady in special testing.

Dr. Lili Liang flipping lenses to refine a script in special testing, garbage bags cover the windows to darken the room.

The grade 1 classroom gets converted into a special testing where the Optometrists find a spot and check patients...notice the size of the small wooden chairs

The line up grows as the morning progresses, Ahren helping out with registration near the back of the line. In the distance you can see the squatter shacks the poor build high on the steep slopes with their limited resources. Everyday they walk up and down for water and food, the luckiest have a job.

A small child points up in Visual Acuities. The occluder covers one eye as the other is tested. 

Over 460 patients go through this station today.

One happy little girl with her new glasses responds emphatically to what she sees, in the dispensary exit Visual Acuity station.

One of our last patients for this 2017 Peru trip loves his glasses