Chapter 6
A year later
Alexis Woodville lay back exhaustedly in her chair and with one move, pulled the medical mask away from her mouth. She stretched out and turned her face tiredly towards the large ventilator mounted onto the ceiling. For a while, she watched as the rusty blades lazily stirred the dry, warm air of the doctors’ staffroom. It was an unusually hot day, which physically challenged not only the Doctors Without Borders team but their patients too. Puebla, one of Mexico’s states was situated in the middle of the country, and at this time of year the tempreture on an average day was otherwise 20-25°C. Although neither the heating nor the air conditioning worked inside the as yet unfinished doctors' surgery, the practice was already functional. From her own experience, Alex
