If you were wondering what the view was from the spacious trunk of a taxi, here it is, folks.
Next is the view of the Municipalidad which is their equivalent of a town hall. We went there to meet with the leaders of some of the communities/districts where we did mobile clinics in the past weeks to give them the pap results so they could keep them on file and help us notify the women who needed further care. The majority of women just had infections/inflammation and needed to visit a clinic to get a cream.
The door-to-door visits we did were within a certain radius- we let the women know about their results and they signed the paper saying they had been informed.
Sometimes, the women lived too far away in complete opposites sides of a community. In that case, we gave all of the results to the community leader and she "signed" for all of them, assuming the responsibility of informing the women of their results.
There were 3 women with possibly pre-cancerous cells, and those visits were all done in person. One women had a serious case with more advanced cancer, and she will be coming with us to the hospital this week.
Remember when I mentioned the "medical literacy" of the population here? Well, the limited knowledge of health here makes delivering news difficult. Do you tell the patient everything, knowing they won't fully understand and could possibly have a complete freak-out/breakdown? Or do you tell them very little to protect them from unnecessary stress while risking them not taking the matter seriously enough?
Chew on that!
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