Father Jack comes back from his vacation today so Iĺl be back to sharing computers with everyone else and probably won't be writing as frequently in the blog. We had two beautiful, incredibly hot sunny days followed by the best thunder and lightning storm I've ever seen. The sky was this amazing orange-yellow. Now we are back to our usual cloudy humid days.
Last Friday, there was a staff meeting and they discussed the difficulty they are having collecting statistics from all their health posts on the Rio Napo. MINSA requires each health center to turn in monthly statistics on the patients they've seen, especially about malaria cases, TB cases, vaccines, and for their nutrition program. The workers at the health post don't see the value in the information and the forms are time consuming. I'm sure the data collection is tedious, but it's so important from a public health standpoint. To know what's going on to be able to deal with it effectively. And on a much more practical level it can affect the amount of money, medicine, or employees that get put towards a certain disease or area. But the reality is no one likes to do paperwork. There was no clear solution they came up with, but to discuss it again once Fr. Jack returned.
I'm on call again tonight. My little boy with chronic malnutrition and pneumonia gave us a bit of a scare last night, droping his oxygen levels down into the 80's but he's doing better today. Hoping to get some rest so I can watch some of the Obama inauguration online tomorrow. Yay!
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