Letty Cruz has a favorite “hat”.
If we could see an invisible hat rack in her office we’d see that this 15-year veteran of the ASELSI clinic has a heart to serve wherever she is needed. She has a laboratory technician hat, one for receptionist, another for serving in the physical therapy area, a hat for keeping up on office duties, and some retired hats that would read: interim clinic director, cook, teacher, and more. But there is one hat that she likes the best. It’s the hat that would read “Ophthalmology.” For those of us who don’t speak medical jargon, that’s the eye and glasses program.
If Letty had to choose her favorite of all the things she does, the eye program would be the one she’d choose above the others.
This program sees hundreds of patients each year. They start in the ASELSI clinic, but Letty and her team don’t just stay around here. They carefully pack their glasses and supplies and travel hours out into the mountains to serve patients who have little or no access to eye care.
