As directed in Matthew, my dental team visited the Guinea Central Prison in Conakry. Because of God's providence I had 7 dentists on hand and we were able to see over 300 patients . This was not planned, but we felt very blessed to have so many dentists for this out reach. Our patients included men, women and boys as young as 15. We were actually prepared to see even younger patients since sometimes it is customary for small children to accompany their mothers into prison (sounds barbaric but make sense when you think on it).
We spent two days in the prison and set up our clinic in a little Catholic chapel. It was actually the same chapel I have been to for the Prison Ministry (see earlier post).
Things went so well, it was sometimes hard to remember we were inside a prison.
The patients were given bread before being seen because sometimes they do not eat well and we need them to have strength to have a tooth pulled.
In the end we just offered a little of God's love in the form of a helping hand.
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