All our practice supplies are ready to go.  On top of the big blue box are bandages, IV supplies, ampules of saline solution and other real medical items for the Promotoras to use.  They will practice on each other under the observation of the great PMC brigade of approximately 40 people, including students, doctors and medical school professors.

The big blue box contains air mattresses and 30 manuals for the Promotoras, called “Donde No Hay Doctor” published by the Hesperian Foundation.  Next to the box is a large blue bag containing CPR practice dummies, three adult and one child.  We will leave to meet the brigade bus with these items at 5:30 tomorrow morning.

This week, Tia and their friends at the Community Medicine Program at UAG are preparing for our project next week in Ixtlahuacan.  While there, we stopped at a marvelous restaurant for lunch called El Minimo.  Above is Dr. Francisco Rico, El Minimo and his wife, Laura Libman and Dr. Michelangelo Marquez.  By the end of next week, Tia will have more than 100 Promotoras (Community Health Workers) serving the rural poor of Mexico.  Keep checking back as we post pictures of our progress.