Description:

Our medical group is led by teams of physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and volunteers who travel to areas outlying Cuzco to set up clinics. Many of the communities we travel to have no standing medical facilities and no proximate access to care. We refuse care to nobody, so the line for triage often stretches around the block. Persons from outlying areas make long trips into town to see our doctors and we find that particularly the elderly have need of our assistance. We work all day, seeing many hundreds of patients with all types of ailments.

Dental

Our team is made up of dentists, hygienists, dental assistants, and volunteers who travel with the medical team. We are a mobile dental office that can set up an impromptu clinic virtually anywhere. We provide standard services and find many whose only access to dental care may be our annual visit. While patients wait to be treated we teach oral hygiene classes and give fluoride treatments. Educational demonstrations and preventative care are often administered by student volunteers and are especially important in maintaining community health.

Surgical

Through a partnership with a local hospital in Cuzco, we have access to an operatory where we provide orthopaedic surgery with an emphasis in hand surgery. Our team works on multiple cases that have been arranged prior to our visit. Many patients have to wait anxiously for exactly this type of care, which is often unavailable to them. We provide these surgeries at no cost to the patient. We need volunteer surgeons, surgical technoligists, surgical nurses, and translators.

We have a special need for anybody able to administer anesthesia.

Volunteer

Most of our volunteers are college-age students who would like to work in the healthcare industry. Students serve alongside healthcare professionals in a setting which allows them to see what activites their future careers could entail. They also have the opporunity to get to know providers who have insight and advice that can help them. We have had many alumni students who have gone on to professional programs aided by the service opportunity that Idaho Condor provides. Each of our teams have a need for Spanish language speakers, and that skill is infinitely useful in the work we do. We also welcome volunteers who have no healthcare experience or ambition, but who still wish to help in some meaningful way.

Organizational Base: Pocatello, Idaho

Other Programs: Audiological, surgical, research