2007 Mission Activities Timeline

This information represents the activities of each day from the time we arrived in Nha Trang until we left the city.

• June 19th - Arrived in Nha Trang and prepare vitamins to pass out to patients.
• June 20th - Met and greeted the director of the hospital and the head of each department.
  • Tour the hospital in the morning.
  Split into groups for the impatient ward and the pediatric department.
  • Teams take rounds and greeted patients from both hospital sections. Vitamins are dispersed in the process. Teams had opportunities to view patient history to gain a better understanding of each individual's progress.
• June 21st, June 22nd - Began seeing patients.
  • We worked with local doctors at the outpatient centers to see patients. Here the students had the opportunity to ask history and do physical examination under the doctors' guidance. The final diagnosis and treatment must be cleared by the local doctors.
  • At these centers, we continued to give out vitamins for both adult and children. We also started the health survey for the people at the centers.
• June 23rd - Hospital Closed. Teams took rounds in the post-surgical and pediatric wards.
• June 24th, June 25th - Continued seeing patients. Repeat of June 21st - June 22nd.
• June 26th - Built future contact and performed educational program.
  • Visited the Vietnamese Red Cross clinics, learned about their program, and donated medicines and medical supplies to the Vietnamese Red Cross.
  • Host educational programs: Kid programs, Malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV programs for adult. To conclude the event, everyday items were distributed to participants such as oral hygiene supplies(toothbrush, toothpaste) and toys(for the kids).
• June 27th - Visited rural village to continue promoting education program.
  • Visited Ngoc Diem village. Met with the people and its community.
  • Host educational adult programs- Nutrition, occupational health, and first aid. We also gave out gifts.