Provide doctors the ability to treat 20,000 Guatemalans with two containers full of medicines and supplies.
Qualified medical teams travel to the most remote and poorest parts of Guatemala. They set up makeshift clinics in villages to provide general care and make surgical referrals to the Obras, a hospital that houses four state-of-the art operating rooms thanks to Faith In Practice supporters. FIP surgery teams then meet the referrals at the Obras. To run these clinics and surgical rooms, two containers of medicines and supplies are all it takes to help 20,000 Guatemalans for an entire year.
In 2009, 883 volunteers organized into 31 teams went to Guatemala. During those missions 15,576 patients were treated in villages and 1,195 surgeries were performed. Two containers of medicines and supplies are imperative to serve all these patients.
Arriving to the villages, our teams are met by crowds of people hoping to receive medical attention. Each medical team needs trunks of medicines and supplies to treat acute illness and disease. Each year more & more are helped.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).
