Story from the field
A day at the health camp
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Two hundred and eleven people, one hall, and a queue that started before the volunteers did.
The camp was advertised for nine o'clock. By half past seven there were sixty people waiting, most of them women, most of them there for someone else in the family.
By the end of the day we had seen two hundred and eleven people. Forty-two were referred on for tests we could not run in a community hall. Nine had blood pressure high enough that we sent them the same afternoon.
The part nobody plans for
The medicines run out before the queue does. Every time. We now budget for a fortnight's supply per person and still finish short.