Surgical Jornada
The word jornada means that someone has traveled to another place to work. Dr. Kevin Bjork a surgeon from Stillwater Minnesota has volunteered at Hospitalito Atitlán several times, as a surgeon and also with his friends from Mano Amiga on the construction of the new hospital. This time Kevin brought anesthesiologist friends Dr. Jim Turner (Minnesota) and Dr. Bill Falinski from Chattanooga TN.
On Sunday nearly sixty people arrived for pre-surgery evaluations. Monday the team did ten scheduled surgeries and an emergency appendectomy and another emergency. In total the team performed 35 surgeries this week. Dan Cummings also helped in many ways. They also did some teaching while they were here, some climbed the volcano San Pedro and all enjoyed their time here. We look forward very much to their return.