When most of us think about a father-daughter dance, what comes to mind are high schools and weddings. Here at the Nacional Hospital in Chalchuapa, however, it was a dance of a very different kind.
Consuela Hernandez is 80 something years old. She was abandoned in the streets not far from the National Hospital Chalchuapa.
It was dark as Maria Fernanda and her dad left their home in Guatemala city to make the 6 hour drive to the Chalchuapa area in neighboring El Salvador.
For a week, the Health Missions International team volunteered in Santa Ana to repair and reconstruct noses, palates and cleft lips.
Physicians in blue and green scrubs scurrying through the sterile white halls prepping for surgery. English and Spanish is spoken through a translator assisting at every juncture continuing into the operating room.