Walk strong is Back!!!

WalkStrong is back in Veracruz! Our advance team has been here for a week, working to get the surgical suites ready, the instruments prepared and the supplies sorted and assembled.
It's been hot work! While the air conditioning has been fixed down in the ORs, it is not working up on the patient unit where our main storage and work areas are. Once the equipment was retrieved and sorted, the instruments were checked and wrapped. Carlos Castillo from our team has been hard at work getting the steam sterilizers up to standards , replacing seals and supervising the maintaince crews. 

The major part of the team arrived Thursday and focused on getting the wards ready for the patients and organizing the supplies for the cases.
We saw 6 patients in preop clinic, following up on consultations requested when we were here a month ago. All but one were ready for surgery this week.
Our plan, 12 to 16 surgeries starting on Saturday.
Everyone got back to the hotel early for dinner and to bed (except Carlos and Derrick Allison, who worked past midnight getting sterile instrument sets ready for the OR.
It's great to be back!!!