Hosting visiting medical teams is one of the many services that Visitation Clinic brings to rural Haiti. These teams can provide the resources to stage mobile clinics in schools and distant villages. These mobile teams can provide general heath screening for a good many people and identify those who need care at the main clinic. This week, the team from Maryland has done this exceedingly well. Here is what Dr. Karen emailed us today:All is going well...
Thus far we have eval approx 1700 children in 6 schools ...today the team is going to a far away village...taking the bus part way and then hiking the rest...expected to be a 90 min walk ...they are excited!
Meanwhile, the surgical part of their team has completed 11 operations, with another five scheduled for today. This week they have had to perform these surgeries at an overcrowded and poorly equipped government hospital located in the nearest city. Because of these conditions, there are another fifty children who need surgery, but won't be helped. Next year, we are hoping, will be quite different. We hope to have made some modifications to our clinic that will allow for basic surgeries. You can support this effort by donating HERE
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