I'm so bad at keeping up with this blog. oops... This week has been pretty busy and we have had a lot of work today. But in short, Tuesday stood out to me because we went to this restaurant called Cafe Mosaico. There was a lovely view of the city from there. I had meatballs and vegetable lasagna. nom nom.
Wednesday was really interesting because we went to some subcentros de salud where they only had two nurses! It really is shocking. The population keeps growing in Quito but the number of health care professionals remains the same. We went to another one where there was only ONE doctor and it was closed because he had to make a house call. There were four people waiting outside the clinic to be treated.
Then we went to a basic hospital where there were only 15 beds. Some days they delivered 6-10 babies per day and there were only 6 beds for these women who were about to give birth. There were lines of people in each hospital that we went to showing that there aren't enough doctors or nurses to take care of all these people.
Today we had class from 9:30-2. A man came in to talk to us about Ecuador's health care system, but he didn't speak any English. So me and Sahil, a classmate, had to translate the entire lecture which was about 2 hours long. It was pretty exhausting. Translating is very difficult and NOT fun at all.
Planning on going out tonight to la discoteca. We'll see what happens...
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