Charlotte: Today we departed our mountain top hotel in Motovun, and headed for the coast! On our way to the coast, the Public Health students met with Helena Valcic, MD from the Medical Center in Labin. I can best describe this Medical Center with an American county health department and an emergency room all in one. This medical center included: primary care physicians, emergency department, OBGYN services, dentists, school heath, a dialysis center, a hospice, epidemiologists and public health inspectors for hotels and restaurants. We surprisingly got to tour every wing and saw several patients in the midst of their care. I did feel a little bit uncomfortable about seeing patients in the midst of their medical care, I felt like we were invading their privacy as comparison to the medical care privacy stands that we receive if we go to a doctor in the United Sates. While the public health students were at the Medical Center, the other students visited an old mine museum.
We then continued our journey by taking a ferry to the island of Cres (pronounced TRESS). Once on the island we stopped at a huge freshwater lake that is heavily protected by the government because it’s the only source of fresh water for the island. They have been very fortunate to have access to drinkable water on the island, many islands have to pipe their freshwater in from the mainland.
Drinkable water is a very important thing to think about when cities were designed. The five key aspects to water access include quality, quantity, proximity, reliability, and cost. All of these aspects must be accounted for when choosing where to live. Fortunately, Cres does have this lake to use as drinking water and the government and the people of Cres take great pride in keeping this water source free of pollutants. We then went to the historic town of Osor which is currently populated by only 68 people.
We then traveled to the city of Mali Losinj (pronounced MAL-ee Low-Shing) where we checked into our hotel. For dinner we went to a near by restaurant to try some local sea food. When we go out in a group we generally have a set menu that we are served and each course is usually some kind of a surprise. Our main course came out and it was whole fish was the heads and everything! I guess I looked a bit scared by the food and a server who spoke no English came over and slapped a fish down on my plate and started cleaning and preparing it for me to eat. The server then had to do the same for several other people on the trip. Once we got past the initial presentation of this food it was delicious.
We then continued our journey by taking a ferry to the island of Cres (pronounced TRESS). Once on the island we stopped at a huge freshwater lake that is heavily protected by the government because it’s the only source of fresh water for the island. They have been very fortunate to have access to drinkable water on the island, many islands have to pipe their freshwater in from the mainland.
Drinkable water is a very important thing to think about when cities were designed. The five key aspects to water access include quality, quantity, proximity, reliability, and cost. All of these aspects must be accounted for when choosing where to live. Fortunately, Cres does have this lake to use as drinking water and the government and the people of Cres take great pride in keeping this water source free of pollutants. We then went to the historic town of Osor which is currently populated by only 68 people.
We then traveled to the city of Mali Losinj (pronounced MAL-ee Low-Shing) where we checked into our hotel. For dinner we went to a near by restaurant to try some local sea food. When we go out in a group we generally have a set menu that we are served and each course is usually some kind of a surprise. Our main course came out and it was whole fish was the heads and everything! I guess I looked a bit scared by the food and a server who spoke no English came over and slapped a fish down on my plate and started cleaning and preparing it for me to eat. The server then had to do the same for several other people on the trip. Once we got past the initial presentation of this food it was delicious.
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