Progress on the Medical Center Construction
2,100 sf medical center includes surgery, dental, exam and counseling rooms. Plus a large pharmacy and a healthcare teaching room. 

 

Jan 16, '02 - foundation almost completed. We had a delay because there was no water available to make cement.

Jan 17 - we used concrete tubes filled with steel reinforcing rods for the corners; faster, stronger  than poured columns.

 
Jan 20 - Main entrance in foreground; this will also be the waiting area.

Jan 27 - Block now up to five courses, doorways and window spaces now apparent. The sixth course is block filled with concrete, so after this it will go quickly to the top - 13 courses of block.

Got Milk? Our clinic neighbor, tied to our fence, wonders why I'm taking her photo! Maybe she wants to donate some milk!

Young girls must carry water home at the end of the day. Here they stop to say hi in front of our medical center. They are wearing "tipica" dress, an colorful embroidered or woven blouse called a "guipil".

Men carry heavy bags of cement on their heads when loading our truck!

   These three brothers look serious today! Each day local boys hang around the construction site seemingly fascinated. At 2,100 sf, the clinic is about ten times larger than the average house - which is raising the collective village's curiosity.

Feb 22 - Inside; the walls are up! Here the welder is making the roof frame. Vaulted ceiling on the inside of clinic will keep rooms cool in hot months.

Feb 22 - Outside look at entrance to the clinic. High wall is roofline.

Feb 26 Roof trusses up! Roof goes onduring next few weeks!

Feb 26 - Our friends Dr. Mike, and Al & Gail Anderson gave advice and suggestions.

The village road is busy at day's end as people return to their homes carry harvested crops or water or, leading animals home.