Monday 22nd

Added to site: Mar 22

After a 2 hour drive, fifty people are seen at the village of Pariaman . There are lots of malaria type illnesses around, maybe Dengue or Ross River Fever or Chikungunya but treatment is not too dissimilar as neither Dengue, Chikungunya or Ross River actually have curative treatments. A big need in these poor villages is for spectacles as they are too poor to afford the transport to the town of Pariaman or city of Padang to buy a pair of cheap glasses, about 30,000 rupiah. I miss having someone like Tony Denney on the team as it is time consuming to find the best pair of glasses for those people in need. We, in developed nations, take good vision or corrected vision as an important basic condition. But not in Indonesia where good vision may make the difference to someone stepping on a snake, touching a poisonous spider or centipede or even seeing mosquitoes...

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