Morning Numbers

We have been at Tonle Bet this past week. The crowds were back. For some reason the last couple of months we did not experience huge crowds in line in the mornings. We would always fill our day with patients and the number we saw is all we could handle, but the masses were not there. It was actually a nice reprieve because it is hard turning away so many people everyday. Even though this is our third trip up the river we can’t see any kind of pattern where the location or time of year may cause this fluctuation of people. We are now staying five days at each location before moving on. This is a change from previous trips where we would stay two or three days at one village going north and then return for two or three more days when going south. Now we stay one week and do not return during the same cycle. gail