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Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Medical Brigades
About Us
Medical Brigades at UC Davis is a chapter of Global Brigades, the world\'s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The UCD chapter systematically works with more than 300 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran and Panamanian community members annually.
Global Medical Brigades develops sustainable health initiatives and provides relief where there is limited access to healthcare. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are treated and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends.
Sponsoring referred patients in Ekumfi Akwakrom for further treatment in the Central Region of Ghana. These patients came to the Global Brigades clinic but needed further screening and treatment that could not be provided during the mobile clinic.
Helping Ekumfi Akwakrom reach their development goals by their Queen Mother Jessica Jaswal.
Helping Ekumfi Akwakrom reach their development goals with the help of their Queen Mother Jessica Jaswal.
Volunteers on the Medical and Dental Brigades will be working closely together to provide quality health initiatives to a community that otherwise has limited access to health care. Volunteers will spend three days in a community in order to optimize the amount of time patients are able to spend with the physicians and dentists. Each patient will receive a physician consultation, teeth cleaning and a fluoride treatment as well as have access to pap smears, prostate exams and restorative dental care as necessary. Volunteers will have the opportunity to take patient vitals, obtain patient history and current symptoms, shadow and assist licensed physicians and dentists, participate in preventative education, and fill prescriptions under a licensed pharmacist. Volunteers will become familiar with the prevalent health issues in their community and learn about how to prevent and treat those illnesses. These brigades provide each volunteer with the opportunity to make a tangible impact on a specific community while gaining real life experience in the field of international medicine and dentistry.
