These two days have been sort of a blur. We have continued to work on the necessary paperwork and are finishing up on our study tool. Debby and I have also started and continued to work on the consent form to be read out loud to study subjects before the administration of the survey. We will have to find a way to shorten the survey but as of right now I am unsure how we will accomplish this. On Tuesday Dr. Corvin came into the country and we are all hoping that having her along will help to push the entire MOH approval process forward. I think we are all starting to get a little frustrated since it seems like no-one knows what is going on and no one knows who to talk to or when we can get a definitive answer. I am starting to worry a little that we may not have any data to collect but the entire process of completing the questions and developing our background information on the relevance of why we are in Belize doing this needs assessment is still very educational. We are also now seeing how the process of MOH approval in a different country may take much longer than anticipated.
On Tuesday evening we went to eat dinner with Dr. Corvin at the Bull Frog and we also discussed the possibility that if we were unable to perform the surveys we could do a focus group with the health care providers in San martin, Mayopan and Salvapan. I have started looking for some survey’s we can use and any other information that we can use to get us along in that direction. I think it would be very interesting to look at their challenges and also it would be pretty amazing to talk to one of the many Cuban doctors who are stationed here in Belize. From this information we could gauge what they perceive are the gaps and also help present our findings to the Belizean government so that they can bridge the gaps that health care providers are faced with on a daily basis.
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