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It takes about one hour for a Hagley Gap citizen to go to the nearest health care facility once she can arrange for transportation over the rough mountain roads. Many in Hagley Gap do not have cars. Many also do not have the money to pay for a seat on a bus and they certainly do not have the three or four hours to spare that it will take go the Gordon Town Health Center.

Seeing this need, the Blue Mountain Project opened its first clinic in Hagley Gap in February of 2006, to provide basic health care. A second clinic was opened in August of 2008 in the neighboring village of Penlyne Castle. The clinics are staffed by a local nurse, supplemented by visiting medical teams from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan during the year. These medical teams generously give up their scarce vacation time to come to bring badly needed medical care and medications to Hagley Gap District.

Villagers can obtain basic first aid and over-the-counter medications in the clinics. Prescription medications are also available free of charge. Basic physical exams and diagnosing is provided during our medical team visits. And on a regular basis we provide other services:

• Dentistry - previous visits by dentistry teams have removed over 500 decayed teeth from the mouths of local people thus preventing 500 potential deaths from infection
• Optometric care especially for the elderly
• Tuberculosis testing
• Pap smears
• Malaria testing
• HIV testing

Many of the elderly and infirm cannot climb up and down the Blue Mountains to make it to the clinics. So our volunteer medical teams and our nurse go to them, climbing the steep mountain routes to bring medical attention.

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