Just like that day number six has come and gone. Not a day goes by when I’m not incredibly thankful for this amazing opportunity we’ve been given. But moving into my actual day, we visited a place north of the city of Buenos Aires called Tigre. Tigre, like La Matanza which we visited yesterday, is similar to a county. Tigre still falls within the Province of Buenos Aires, also like La Matanza. Tigre consists of a very large system of rivers, and a lot of the citizens of Tigre live on these rivers. Rather than a normal road, Tigre’s main avenue of travel is the river system. Because of this people who want to travel throughout the area need to do so on a boat. Kids ride on boats to school instead of school buses, people have groceries delivered to them on boats, and even the ambulance for the Tigre public hospital is a boat. The first thing we did in Tigre was visit their public hospital. To get to the hospital, like many others in Tigre, we had to take a boat ride.  According to the woman who gave us the tour, Tigre is a considerably more wealthy area than others, but I would have to disagree based on what I’ve seen so far. The hospital we visited in La Matanza was very run down, yes, but they still had a rather large building with many parts. The Tigre public hospital was also run down, but it was incredibly small. It consisted of four rooms that were so small our entire class was barely able to fit. As we know, primary care is one of the most important parts of the healthcare system in Argentina. It is the default method of healthcare for every single Argentine citizen, as the right to healthcare is within the constitution. However, being able to properly provide that care to people is something that the people of Argentina have been struggling to accomplish. One of the most significant things our speaker told us today was how incredibly difficult it is to provide people with medicine. Medications are something that are incredibly expensive, and nearly 50% of the people of Argentina are living below the poverty line. Poverty is something that Argentina has struggled with for a while, and because of that, it makes it very difficult to afford these medications. The bottom line is there is an incredible lack of resources, both money and medication, within the Argentine health system. The people who work within the system can be incredibly smart, and identify your illness with ease. But there is nothing they can do to solve this illness and deliver a high quality of care, without the medication or resources required to treat it. Visiting this public hospital really helped confirm this idea. After we visited the hospital we took a boat back into the town of Tigre. Here there were lots of little shops with souvenirs such as steak knives, jewelry, and clothes. Another great day is in the books, and can’t I wait for many more.