Vitamin A-Community education
A Sunday afternoon charla was presented to the La Guamita community on nutrition, including a discussion of vitamin A requirements for good vision and health, and vitamin A food sources. Mothers were encouraged to breast-feed infants. The community was encouraged to continue their good vitamin A consumption then the mango season ends by including carrots and dark green lettuces in their diet. The Cooperadore followed up the
charla by stressing to his community the health benefits of a vitamin A rich diet. A Pharmacy student from Creighton University contributed to the effort in La Guamita by packaging 90-day supplies of multivitamin supplements. Almost every patient seen in the clinic the last two weeks of July (approximately 200 individuals) received a packet of multivitamins.