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Surgical Teams
  • See International performs free sight-restoring surgery, recruiting dedicated professionals who volunteer their time and pay their own expenses to participate in an expedition.
  • Operation Rainbow Reconstructive surgery to disadvantaged children, picks up airfare for OR nurses.
  • M.E.D.I.C.O. Each year, MEDICO sponsors five to seven field teams to provide free medical care to people in Honduras. Each team consists of 15-20 participants, including dentists, dental assistants, physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, optometrists, optometric technicians, pharmacists, and other medical professionals. Teams also include 6-8 Spanish translators and lay volunteers. Team members are unpaid and travel at their own expense.
  • Interplast Visits by volunteer reconstructive surgery teams are the historical model used by Interplast to bring surgery to needy people around the world. Each of these trips has a planned educational component, including lectures and hands-on training for local doctors, surgical residents and nurses. They expect to send 17 such trips this year to countries all over the world, including Bangladesh, Bolivia, China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Mali, Peru and Vietnam. Each medical team is comprised of an average of 12 to 15 volunteers, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, pediatricians, operating room and recovery room nurses, speech and physical therapists if necessary, and trip coordinators/translators. On average, the teams perform between 75-100 surgeries during their two weeks at a site.
  • Esperanca" We are currently scheduling general, gynecologic, orthopedic, ophthalmologic, plastic/reconstructive, and urologic surgery missions to Tarija, Bolivia eight times per year. Volunteer surgical missions are typically two weeks in duration (14-16 days including travel) with 40-50 surgeries performed during each visit. Currently, this is our only surgical site and the specialties listed above are those most needed by the population we serve."
  • Medical Ministry International 30 countries served, interdenominational. *
  • Healing the Children "For periods from 7-10 days, our Medical Teams Abroad Program (MTAP) volunteers travel, on their vacation time and at their own expense, to developing countries. Up to 100 procedures or more are performed on needy children at these locations. In advance of these missions, team members raise funds, collect supplies and procure borrowed equipment to make the missions a reality. Additionally , annually, over 40 children are brought to the United States through our International Inbound Program where they receive life-altering, donated medical services from generous physicians, medical facilities and other medical specialty providers. Without their willingness to donate services, countless children would have no hope of a normal life. The host families who love and care for these children throughout their treatment are just as important."
  • Light of the World Charities A nonprofit Christian organization that primarily sends surgical volunteers to developing nations to provide health care for the poor.
  • Medical Missions Foundation Provides reconstructive surgery for children with cleft lip and palate. Trains local nurses and physicians in needy communities worldwide.
  • Flying Doctors of America US based group supplying physicians, dentists, nurses, chiropractors, and non-medical support volunteers to care for people worldwide who otherwise would never receive professional medical care.
  • Operation Smile Operation Smile coordinates more than 30 Medical Mission sites in 25 countries annually. In 2005, medical volunteers provided free surgeries for 9,334 children through international and local, in-country medical missions.

* An asterisk indicates "a faith affiliation" is required by the organization.

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