Tikamp…otra vez

Thursday we took our rolling medical circus back to Tikamp which was the last village we visited before we left for Corn Island. It’s a fairly remote village and the people who live there seemed a little less healthy than in other villages. This may be due to the lack of a government health clinic in the village. I was with Jeff for this clinic and most of the patients we saw were women with three or four kids in tow. Again the predominant symptoms were headaches, night fevers and no appetite. For the headaches we tell them they need to drink more water, the night fevers are usually unless they have other symptoms concurrent with TB or Malaria. Most of the people complaining of fevers didn't show an elevated temp even if they claimed to be suffering from fever at that very moment. There was one pregnant mother who was expecting here baby any day and said she was planning on using the village midwife to help with the delivery. We were also able to check the fetus' heart rate using our monitor which was pretty interesting. Over all it wasn't the most interesting clinic so far but we did get home in one peace which is always a plus.