We have collected an extensive list of online resources related to international health and medical missions.
The Foundation provides free medical and dental care and health education on disease prevention, sanitation and nutrition through a clinic in Limon known as the Carolina Health Clinic. Several teams visit the clinic each year.
The Carroll County Haiti Mission Project(CCHMP) was created in 2001 to build a medical/dental clinic in the village of Juampas. Since then, the organization has expanded its missions to school sponsorships, vaccinations, dental care and water purification.
Casa de Esperanza provides medical, dental and construction services in central Honduras. The portable dental clinic provides free dental care. Medical clinics are periodically run alongside the dental clinics.
Casa Guatemala is an orphanage that cares for the nurturing, health and education of over 250 children. This site, located in Zone 1 of Guatemala City, also houses a 24 hour/25 bed on-site medical centre, which extends free treatments to thousands of children and adults per year. The infant home and clinic is entirely staffed by Guatemalans and includes: 2 doctors, 5 nurses, 7 baby sitters, a lab technician, a cook, a psychologist and 3 social workers. Dr. Alvaro Fiugeroa leads a team from the Rush Craniofacial Center in Chicago each year to perform cleft lip/cleft palate surgeries.
CMT provides free medical care to the Mayan people of the highlands of Guatemala. Annual surgical trip to Solola.
Works in health care, education, public policy and justice issues in Hinche, Haiti. The diocese hosts numerous visitors, and sponsors conferences. Their web site has a calendar of trips (some medical), conferences and links.
CMMB began working in Haiti in the 1920's, and now supports healthcare initiatives with benefits to women and children. These include a school-based health program, a daycare center with health care, and work with St. Boniface hospital in Fond des Blanc.
This is the part of CDC's website that provides information and recommendations about travel to various countries. Other parts of the CDC website are also very useful.
In Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras the Center for the Rehabilitation of Patients with Addictions -- CEREPA -- combines an environment of Christian love and teaching with a variety of proven treatments for addiction.
CAMO is a non-denominational Christian organization providing medical equipment, community service, supplies and training to impoverished regions of Central America. Many CAMO programs and medical missions serve Honduras.
Provides health education and treatment for physically and mentally handicapped children in the Jacmel region, on the south coast of Haiti. Pazapa has had an cooperative relationship with St. Vincent's School for the Handicapped in Port- au-Prince. Staff includes a registered nurse, a physical therapist, three health educators. Visiting physicians hold periodic patient evaluation clinics. Papaza provides surgery, orthopedic devices, physical therapy, and rehabilitation for physically handicapped children at no cost.
The Centre Materno et Infantil de Boileau (CMIB) provides counseling, family planning, routine pre and postpartum examinations, referrals for complicated pregnancies, practical courses in health and hygiene, routine childhood examinations and vaccinations and transient nutritional intervention. The clinic is open four days a week and is staffed with two registered nurses, two laboratory technologists, a practical nurse who oversees the pharmacy and a full-time physician.
Centre Sante de la Grace du Bon Samaritain is located in Cazale and operated by Real Hope for Haiti, Inc. The clinic is opened Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for general consultations from 7am-5pm. They are opened Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday from 7am-12pm for dressing changes and appointments. They charge a small consultation fee of approximately $1.50, but give medications away for no charge.
Centre Sante Lumiere provides a broad spectrum of out-patient services in family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, urology, orthopedics, dentistry and community health.
Rural clinic in San Juan Sacatepequez,one hour outside of Guatemala City. Has 2 fully-equipped ORs at the Centro de Salud Barbara . Surgical teams welcome, lodging available. Partner for Surgery will bring in patients for these teams, from among the neediest of the poor. PFS provides all necessary patient logistics from translation to follow-up care.
Centro Maya Project is located in San Juan La Laguna Sololá, Guatemala. They provide humanitarian, educational, and medical assistance to indigenous Mayan families, with a focus on those families with disabled children. They offer medical/dental services at Clínica Sanjuanerita (http://www.odimguatemala.org/?page_id=59).
Bournigal Medical Center (CMB) is a general and specialized hospital located in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
Full-service hospital in Guatemala City.
Cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment for women from the Leogane area. Uses Thin Prep screening and portable colposcopes. Run by Family Health Ministries.
Chain of Hope sends teams of pediatric cardiac surgeons on short term missions to Haiti and other developing countries worldwide.
Each year, Children of the Americas, Inc. organizes a volunteer medical/surgical team that travels to Guatemala to provide free medical and surgical care to children and their families. Services provided include outpatient general medical treatment, plastic surgery (including cleft lip and palate repair and burn reconstruction), OB/GYN surgery, pediatric orthopedic surgery, general surgery, and dentistry. The group also includes an orthotics and prosthetics component that provides braces and prosthetic devices to children who have lost limbs due to accident or injury.
Children of the Nations works in homes, schools, farms, skill centers, clinics, and village feeding centers in the US, Dominican Republic, Sierra Leone, and Malawi. Over 300 interns have served from one month to one year in each country. COTN supports sends both medical and surgical teams as well as evangelistic teams to these countries.
Charitable organization involved in social and healthcare projects in Nicaragua, Mexico, Rwanda, and Haiti. In Haiti they collaborate with the Foundation for Mercy and Sharing to support 3 orphanages and an OB-GYN Hospital and Clinic(Mercy Clinic)in Port-au-Prince.
Medical charity dedicated to the treatment and prevention of heart disease in needy children in developing countries. Programs of assistance include surgery, rheumatic fever prevention programs, education and training for medical professionals, and the donation of medical equipment and supplies.
CMMH, is a not-for-profit foundation which supports children's health work by the Episcopal Church of Haiti (Eglise Episcopale d'Haiti; EEH).
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