Blog 2:
Before I came to Panama and visited
the clinics, I had pretty low expectations according to Dr. Cadena’s lectures.
However, when we went to the CSS clinic in Chitre, the conditions were much
better than I was expecting. Although the nurses here have a couple of
different techniques than we do, such as aspiration and the lack of gloves, I
thought the conditions at the clinic were quite good for the resources they are
given. Especially because that clinic has so many patients a day and so many
different specialties under one roof. I thought all of the nurses there were
really well educated and I never thought that any of them were sub par. Also, I went around the clinic with a
occupational health nurse one day and learned that the clinic takes vaccinating
their staff extremely seriously. (Even if the staff doesn’t particularly want
to be vaccinated!) This is very important because obviously this is a very
high-risk work environment for contracting communicable diseases.
The psychiatric hospital is a different
story however. I still believe that the hospital was trying very hard to
provide quality care with the resources it could afford, but that wasn’t very
much. When we were talking to the doctor, he was telling us that he thinks that
the hospital could have benefited from the money they put in the new hospital
in some other way. I agree with the doctor, however I also think the hospital
could benefit from a new hospital, because the current campus is basically all
outside and really old. This hospital was very sad to visit because of the
complete lack of resources they have there.
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