This story is like the medical edition of Mark 6. You
know the story, the 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish feed 5,000? Imagine this taking
place with acetaminophen at a tiny mobile medical clinic in Cite Soleil. Here’s how it went….
World Hope sent us a team from New York that was going to be
working in Cite Soleil doing Vacation Bible School and a mobile medical
clinic. God had some big plans from the
very beginning when He sent two medical doctors to join our team. See, we had a nurse on the team who was going
to focus on wound care. After the doctors sat down for the first day of the
clinic, we quickly realized that no one needed wound care. Instead, they needed
antibiotics, de-worming medication, fever reducing pain killers, multivitamins,
and ointment for rashes. Luckily, we had everything that was needed to make a
diagnosis and offer a cure, even if only temporary as many of these issues are
deep-rooted issues.
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| Just a few of the medicines available |
We didn’t expect for the doctors to be available for a
second day of clinic. We were wrong. Jean Marc and Dokte Minaud offered to join
our team again on Tuesday.
So early that morning, we went to the pharmacy and nearly
bought it out… again. It seemed as if every other patient was getting multivitamins,
de-worming medication, and acetaminophen. Although the bottle of acetaminophen would probably last any normal person 10 years or more, Rachael
realized it was quickly running out. Prescription after prescription was being
filled as over 150 people filed through. Rachael sat and counted out the
prescriptions for acetaminophen as they came. The bottle was getting lighter
and lighter, and it seemed as if the patients just kept coming, and coming, and
coming. Would the bottle last? She prayed over it…. And here’s what was left….
One last pill.
Thank you, Jesus, healer of the sick, sustainer of life.
