Medical Camp Prep

We've been back at Beacon in the days since Bissel, getting ready for our second, and larger medical camp on Saturday in Ongata Rongai. Last year's camp served 800 patients, and this year we hear projections substantially exceeding that amount. In preparation, we're putting what we learned from our first go at a medical camp in Bissel to good use. We have revamped our pharmacy area with the help and advantage of our team's gifted health care professionals (and those of us who've become experts in the last week or so!).




Mark, James, Paul and Barry put their heads together and came up with an inventory of all the medications we have and all potential dosages and uses for each. Thanks to Mandy living with a laptop for the last few days, we now have a beautiful one-page computerized form for each patient that all of the providers will use to prescribe medications. Our hope is that, with the help of this form, the pharmacy process should run more smoothly for Saturday's clinic, and future medical camps to come!



Barry (our head pharmacist), Sarah and Jenna (pharmacy technicians-in-training) have spent the day in the pharmacy organizing and alphabetizing. Mike, Nathan & Cindy have counted pills all day and filled tons of bottles with cough syrups and suspensions that overflow our many boxes. After a hard day's work I think we are almost ready for medical camp...and a good night's sleep.