Dear Friends and Volunteers,
Dr. Lucy Munoz is starting this year a short medical mission in HUAYTARA, a small village in the southwestern region of Huancavelica, closer to the ocean than Huancavelica city. This is a first trial there. We are now consolidating a team and donations. The team will be a small team with no surgical services since there is not a surgical room available. The local Health Unit is a small sets of outpatient offices and small wing for admissions ( 16 beds ) which are not yet functioning, they are new and do not even have mattresses. The small, picturesque and beautiful village h as a small hotel, check it out here:www.hotelhuaytaraplazapi.com The volunteers must fill the sign-in forms ( attached ) as soon as possible since we have to submit the "services folder" to local authorities to star the process of Mission approval by Minister of Health ( MINSA) www.minsa.gob.pe. In that page you may find statistical data for the area.If you wish to contribute with some money, please send it to PAMSEF, c/o Ana May Salgado, 6488 Tamerlane, West Bloomfield MI 48322 USA.This mission will work five days in mid June. Contact Dr Munoz for more details. The second mission of the year is the classical Huancavelica Mission: before the end of the month we are sending with Direct Relief our first container of donations. We wish to have a medical team of some 24 doctors for the 2 weeks. Thanks goodness we have now already two specialties we always missed in the past: one cardiologist and one dermatologists. Hope our pediatric psychologists who were so useful at the orphanage may come back this year as well. Today I am meeting for second time with the Peruvian team of nurses, well known to all of you since it is their sixth consecutive year they are helping us. It is our second meeting so far: we have all the surgical nurses we need, we would like to have more in other areas. As usual all students, medical or otherwise MUST commit to the 2 weeks of services. Blessings and best wishes for this year to all of you. May your generosity and love for humanity grow and may the fruits of your work be many. Dr. Ralph Kuon Director Huancavelica Medical Mission |
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