Pregnant Medical Report
I sat with pen posed this week while listening to Kathleen and Afri, our Indonesian nurses. I anticipated that I would jot just a few notes from their observations of their two weeks interior, hiking through 28 villages. Two hours later, my blank page is filled with tiny scrawl and my heart is moved, beyond what I expected, to see the immense needs through their eyes. I can’t hold their report to myself. I must process the information and share it with you. We have to formulate plans and goals of how we can impact people groups who have little or absolutely NO access to health care. Please listen with me, as I recreate their conversation: “Mam Ruth, we are so confused how to teach health care prevention in these far places. We thought we would teach them the importance of washing their hands, before they eat. Yet they have no water anywhere near their houses. The people have to walk maybe thirty minutes to the river...