Mission Plasticos conducted its fourth mission to Argentina with a team of seven medical volunteers. This was their first mission to the city of Cordoba, where the team spent one week completing advanced plastic surgery reconstruction procedures and training.
Most of the plastic surgery residents in the training program are unpaid and come from poor families. They cannot afford expensive surgical equipment that other surgeons rely on. Our mission included the donation of much needed supplies.
MSF hands over its HIV program in Arua, Uganda, after long-term improvement in care and patient outcomes.
The July Amazon Promise medical outreach team traveled far, by bus, boat, and on foot to reach the jungle communities of Amazonas and San Francisco on the lower Maranon River, providing medical and dental care to 754 people during four clinic days.
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