Country: Honduras, Nicaragua
Length of Trip: 1 Week
Trips per Year to Latin America: Not available
Cost: Not available
Urban/Rural: Both
Type of Volunteer: Physician/mid-level provider
Type of Organization: Faith Based
Type of Clinic: Mobile or Informal Clinic, Standing Clinic
Description:
Health Care is either a luxury or just unavailable in some areas of Latin America. If a doctor is available, medications are completely out of reach, especially when some pills are worth more than a weeks salary for some people ($10). Our programs include the personal care and attention to patients, medical exams if required, medications, follow up, and proper filing of paperwork for future treatments. In some cases we treat permanent illnesses such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and in severe cases we do surgery in proper rented facilities.
Total Health – La Ceiba
Mission Trip Mobile Clinics
Total Health – Managua
Total Health is a U.S.based organization that is committed to providing high quality,consistent and reliable medical care in Central America. Through disease prevention and early treatment we can dramatically change the health of the people we serve. This is being done by funding the salaries of key positions, supplying medications on a consistent basis, expanding diagnostic capabilities like x-ray and laboratory equipment, and sending medical teams from the US to help provide care.
Currently, Total Health is active in La Ceiba and Managua and there are other partnerships that Total Health hopes to establish in the near future.
Organizational Base: Miami, Florida
Other Programs: Micro loans, job creation, housing, education
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We receive medical trips, besides our Total Health partner. You are welcome to plan one through us, going on a different city where we have our local churches. To have a better idea about our cities to go, please visit our website: IGCLA.COM
August 28, 2017