Junction Street Family Practice Cambodia Trip 2016/2017 | Interest
Junction Street Family Practice Cambodia Trip 2016/2017
Reviews
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23.01.2022 Hard at work putting together clothing packs for the local villages!
22.01.2022 Working hard or hardly working?
22.01.2022 Someone on the team has an excellent sense of humour.
22.01.2022 Some of the team toured the temples today. It was exceedingly hot, but absolutely amazing.
19.01.2022 We are back! Watch this space to be part of Junction Streets medical trip to Cambodia 2.0.
19.01.2022 What a day, packed hundreds of backpacks full of clothes in extreme heat (not much need to use the toilet, sweated everything out). Finished the day watching sunset at the Chinese bridge. Many of us sleeping in tents, be interesting to see how that goes. Will let you know tomorrow! Note the party lights on the bus.
18.01.2022 Another amazing, exhausting, sweaty, hot day, ending with swollen feet and cankles for the first time in our lives. Saw about 200 patients in the Help2Help clinic, in a short period of time. Much laughter and a few tears. Wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
18.01.2022 We know the next members of our team are almost here, the arrivals board on the special tv station in our hotel room is telling us!
13.01.2022 Forgot to post our favourite installation for the day, fan installed by David Evison, we're fighting to sit under it.
13.01.2022 Help2Help welcome dinner before we head out to the villages tomorrow.
11.01.2022 Another great day with another 160+ patients, some great teaching with the international medical students and an Australian nursing student, with Opportunity Cambodia. Off to the pre-school tomorrow for more clinics.
09.01.2022 3 of the team members excitedly waiting for their flight- watch out Cambodia we're coming for you!
09.01.2022 Yesterday was our last morning with Help2Help. After visiting a neighbouring farm before breakfast and seeing what amazing things can be achieved in a difficult environment, we packed up and were delighted to be welcomed back to the wonderful Apsara Cenrepole Hotel in Siem Reap. After lunch together, some of us visited Artisans of Angkor and some just relaxed for the afternoon. We had our farewell dinner with the whole team and enjoyed everyone looking and smelling so incredibly clean. Needless to say, it was an early night and there was much joy at sleeping in a cool, clean room!
08.01.2022 Another extraordinary day, after storms and blackout last night (& watching Costa dance Zorba) today we ran a medical clinic for Opportunity Cambodia at their school. Four clinician stations saw over 270 patients, power went out so ended the day consulting with very little light. Saw things you'd never see in Australia, mumps, tuberculosis, goiter to name a few. Looked after very poor people from 13 villages, a lot of really sick people, but so grateful. Now we're watching another storm and enjoying a delicious dinner. We leave Kampong Kdei tomorrow with very mixed feelings, be great to be clean, dry, cool and in a proper bed, but being out here has been such a precious gift, it's been awesome.
07.01.2022 We thought yesterday was a big day, don't know what we were thinking. Deep River village clinic today where more than 400 people were seen, making an average day at Junction Street look like a piece of cake. Our doctors, nurses, student nurse and runners worked so hard in hot and crowded conditions. We also stopped at the River maternity hospital on the way back, note the delivery room set up. We also handed out most of the hundreds of backpacks we packed yesterday.
06.01.2022 A confronting visit to a tip village this morning, a huge learning experience for us all. Arrived at Help2Help compound. Delicious lunch. Fans being hooked up in our tents now(phew). Packing food and clothes packages this afternoon. Team of around 35, lots for us all to do.
05.01.2022 Day 1 at the clinic done, reunited with our fabulous Cambodian medical students. 160 people seen in a really hectic clinic, age ranges from 2 months to 92 years. As you can see, exhausted on the bus and very happy to hit the pool on our return.
03.01.2022 Yesterday the Fellowship of the ring broke up, losing the first of the team, we allowed Costa an early departure as he had a wife and baby to get home to. Some of the team spent the morning relaxing, some at the war museum and some negotiating on silver jewelry, bags and dvds. We enjoyed a final lunch together at the Foreign Correspondents Club, which was a really special way to say goodbye. The afternoon was spent by the pool (until we were sent inside while they fumigated for mosquitoes). Poor David and David had to endure the night markets with the girls. Lunch had sustained us and a delicious street stall banana pancake was enough for dinner. The team just keeps reducing now.
