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Friday marked our last clinic day of the week. It seems impossible that a week has already gone by. Our team started the week as strangers and now we are like family.
On the fourth day of our mission trip to El Salvador, we set up our medical clinic at the Cooperativa de Pescadores Los Blancos, a fish market of sorts where vendors come to sell their goods. The...
We are seeing great partnerships evolve between our doctors, residents and medical student interpreters in El Salvador this week.
There's a saying we live by on mission trips — embrace the mystery. No matter how well you plan for things, something will happen that requires a quick change. How you react to those changes makes all...
For the first day of our mission, we set up our clinic at the Centro Escolar Angela Scorsonelli, a grade school in Canton El Escobal, in the Municipio de Dan Luis La Herradura. When we arrived at 8:30...
A team of 38 AMITA Health associates and doctors have come to El Salvador to treat those in need.
Our last clinic of the week was held at another school, about an hour away. It was a very remote area where some of the poorest residents live, and there is no access to care. Still, we saw 356...
Today we set up our clinic at another school. This one was tucked back into a wooded area, a row of several buildings connected by covered areas and patios. We had not scouted the area prior to...