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Pomona Medical Brigade June 2013 Honduras



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The 2013 Summer service trip focuses on Honduras; Honduras has been identified by the World Bank as the third most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere. One in every five people living in rural Honduras do not have access to healthcare. For every 10,000 Honduran citizens, there typically exists only four doctors, one dentist, and ten nurses to provide care. In Honduras, children and families suffer greatly without adequate medical care and this humanitarian effort seeks to improve the quality of life for those less fortunate than ourselves. Our mission is essential and necessary. What we in the United States consider the most basic of needs, (education, health care, and clean water), are considered luxuries for the majority of people in the impoverished regions of Honduras. In fact, a Honduran family of four typically lives on less than $2.00 a day and has less than 3 gallons of water per day available for household use.
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Volunteer Activity Description

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.

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