Roxanne Comito

rje93@wildcats.unh.edu

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This May I will be volunteering in a medical brigade to Honduras with other students from UNH. During this trip we will be providing health care to a less fortunate community that has limited access to the health care they need. More specifically, I will be teaching them proper hygiene, such as oral health and hand washing along with healthy eating. Also, I will be taking the blood pressure, height, weight, and temperature of all the community members. I will be filling and dispensing medications for community members under the supervision of pharmacists and doctors, both local and foreign.

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New Hampshire Medical Brigade HONDURAS May 2015



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Medical Brigades of New Hampshire is a discipline of Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The Medical Brigades of New Hampshire chapter systematically works with more than 350 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran, Panamanian, and Ghanaian community members annually.

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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