Interviews Day 2

This afternoon, Maria and I went out to do interviews again and Michelle decided to come along! Maria already had several people in mind that we should talk to--people that have had experience both with traditional public or private care and with short-term medical missions. After four interviews, including one with a woman who has a split palate and was therefore hard to understand, I am quite tired! However some interesting questions came out of my interviews from today:

• I need a better understanding of the public vs. private system. Today several people also referenced the "seguro" (insurance) as a type of care, so I need to talk to Maria about that.
• Two women that I've interviewed thus far are "promotoras de salud" (health promoters); the one I talked to today told me a bit more about her job and training and offered to introduce me to the people at the Episcopal clinic who run the program.  

This evening and tomorrow I will type up today's interviews and finish listening to yesterday's as well. A mission team comes in tonight, and as I already have 7 interviews--this is going much faster than I thought it would--I am going to take a few days off interviewing to help translate for the team.  We'll start interviews again on Monday. In the meantime, Maria is getting in touch with the next set of people we want to interview.