Monday, February 9, 2015

Day 11: 1/14/15 Funglode

 Today we all woke up in the beautiful Hotel Embajador and headed straight down to a delicious breakfast. Our day started early with a bus ride back to Funglode at 9:30am. At Funglode, we met back up to talk with Stefano Todde. Stefano has so many interesting and inspiring stories that he shared with us concerning his experiences in Zambia working with patients who had HIV. This was extremely relevant to us especially after visiting La Casa Rosada just yesterday. The next speaker was a man named Dr. Paulino. Dr. Paulino spoke about tropical diseases with us like Chikungunya, Malaria, Dengue, and many others! He focused on the mosquito born illness in the area of the Dominican Republic because it was the most pertinent to what we had just experienced. All of the speakers who spoke with us today were extremely interesting and answered any questions we may have had about the public health system in the Dominican Republic. 
Next we went to a beautiful restaurant for lunch. We ate outside underneath a giant tree. The scenery of the restaurant was amazing! We had chicken, salad, beef, rice, and passion fruit juice. It was delicious! Our friends from Funglode, Loriel, Mandi, Stefano and Christty, joined us for lunch as well! After we ate, we met back up with Dr. Paulino for a tour of a public health clinic in Santo Domingo. This clinic had dental, gynecological, pediatric, and other specialties all in the same building. It was very different from those you would see in the states. They took a lot of pride in the clinic and also told us they were working on expanding it in the near future. After the visiting clinic, we made our way back to the hotel, for a relaxing night off!



Casey Schwacke, S.N.



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