We offer medical and spiritual restoration. In Guatemala there is a big need for medical care in the most remote villages of the country. That need is a great opportunity for us. For years we have been able to bring medical care and spiritual hope to the
2014, 'Did we do good? NGOs, conflicts of interest and the evaluation of short- term medical missions in Solola, Guatemala', Social Science & Medicine, vol. 120, no. 0, pp. 344-51.Berry NS. Did we do good? NGOs, conflicts of interest and the evaluation of short‐term medical ...
Upcoming Missions Antigua, Guatemala Our team of dedicated healthcare professionals will be traveling to Guatemala in January 2025. Learn More Serrekunda, The Gambia Our team of dedicated healthcare professionals will be traveling to The Gambia in April, 2025. ...
NGOs, conflicts of interest and the evaluation of short-term medical missions in Sololá, Guatemala There is a paucity of scholarly literature on short term medical missions.The dominant modes of evaluation rely on perceptions of volunteers and organizers... NS Berry - 《Social Science & ...
T5 would like to thank Guatemala’s First Lady of Labor as well as the country’s social services personnel who assisted this deployment in every way. Medical Missions Foundation connected the dots, and United Aid Foundation sponsored the cost of the diversion to the earthquake. Team 5 is fund...
More recently, in April, 1996, I documented a team of 11 who travelled to Cochabamba, Bolivia, to carry out soft tissue surgery.Meryl LevinThe LancetLevin, M. Healing the Children: Medical Missions. Lancet 1996, 348, 1712-1713. [CrossRef]...
Short-term Medical Missions (STMMs) have become one avenue for extending healthcare delivery in countries such as Ghana. Historically in Ghana, large numbers of people have engaged in short term medical missions yearly. They come primarily from High Income Countries (HICs) to provide medical ...
While my group went to Honduras, local churches also sent medical missions to Nicaragua and Guatemala. As a participant, you'll donate your time and usually pay your own travel expenses. The agency or the host country may cover some local expenses. Every 3 years the American Medical ...
Purpose: Medical missions, often consisting of teams from wealthier nations have become increasingly popular. However, many criticisms on their outcomes exist such as it being a short term fix. The need to reach remote areas of developing countries is undeniable. Due to this need, our group inst...
Little is known about providing informed consent in more uncertain situations such as medical missions. We sought to examine the informed consent process in the medical mission setting. Methods: We studied informed consent for adult patients undergoing inguinal herniorrhaphy during a medical mission to ...