2007 Announcements Archive
11/29/07 - The San Antonio clinic sees great increase in volume - return to top
The Remote Village Project’s medical clinic in San Antonio de la Libertad has seen 397 patients in the last three months. That brings the total number of patient visits for one year of clinical operations to 2,140 for the two sites. Looks like our Community Health Workers are having a real impact!
11/10/07 – Medical Brigade returns from vastly successful mission to Honduras - return to top
The Medical Brigade’s largest and most productive team ever - 77 doctors, surgeons, nurses, and non-medical support personnel, each donating a week of vacation and paying their own way - served 7,611 patients over a five day period! In addition to treating thousands of general medicine adult and pediatric patients, the team performed scores of surgical operations, prescribed and fit over 2,200 pair of eyeglasses, assisted patients with physical therapy needs, provided services to hearing impaired children and adults, and donated over $600,000 of medical supplies.
11/10/07 – Medical Brigade Broadens Relationship with U.S. Army - return to top
The Medical Brigade deepened its relationship with the United States Military in Central America by donating five reconditioned ventilators to the Commander of Soto Cano Airbase in Comayagua, for the benefit of the Army’s Medical Corps community outreach program. This valuable equipment was then donated to the public hospital of San Pedro Sula and Hospital Escuela, the national medical school teaching facility in Tegucigalpa. A ‘best-practices’ meeting was also held, in which the leadership of the Medical Brigade met with the senior medical officer and his staff. This officer is responsible for staging MEDRETE (Medical Readiness Training Exercises), in which medical personnel stationed at Soto Cano provide free health care services to underserved populations throughout Honduras and Central America. These exercises are remarkably similar to the daily clinics staged by the Medical Brigade and the exchange of logistics planning and brigade execution best practices was mutually beneficial. The Medical Brigade is presently in conversation with the US Military in its efforts to expand the scope of MEDRETEs to include vision services with recycled eyeglasses.