A Dutch doctor, working in the north-west of Haiti in a small town since 2001 shares her experiences with you. Not the medical things, but the remarks Haitians make, things they believe and do she encounters every day. Even though she has been in Haiti since 2001, she is still amazed in some things the Haitians in rural areas believe and do that seem so alien to people of Western developed countries.
So this older surgery patient had his shirt on the wrong way. Backwards and inside-out. No one said a thing about it all day. When he was sitting on the surgery table I changed his shirt for him until.....the nurses explained me why he had it like that.
It is to avoid and prevent evil on the way. Oops. An old custom everyone knows except me....not even after 20 years.
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