Thought I would share a post with you from our missionaries in Guatemala - Dennis & Cindy McCutcheon...
"Hospital Shalom Matzatenango calls us for help – An Excel 210 anesthesia machine has a leak and a team of surgeons coming in 10 days to operate on cleft palates. Need parts, but no way to get them here in time. Welcome to mission medicine!
In the USA pull the machine out of the room and bring in one of many backups. NOT an option for our friends in this Christian Hospital. Pragmatism requires the machine to stay in service. Sooo, unplug the tube from exit port, drop it through a hole in the bottom of the case, find the heaviest hemostat and clamp it during the case. Drive 3 hours home, get on the phone to Jeff Rhinehart at Metropolitan Medical in Asheville NC (wish I had taken that picture of the problem part when I thought of it-too late). HELP!! He agrees to find a used part, God please bless this business that is so generous with us. Now find someone coming to Guatemala soon. Get info to Jeff, my daugters and the person coming. Arrange paperwork in case customs is a problem. Meet them at airport, pick up the part and 6 to 7 hours on the road to make the repair… yes it seems that things are never easy in Guatemala.
But who is complaining, the scenery, the people, tortillas, fried plantains, fresh bananas, flan… sharing Jesus. Where else would one want to be?"
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