Every year hundreds of people chose to leave their homes and loved ones to go and volunteer to help their fellow man. Many are doctors, dentists, nurses, or lay persons with the heart to just want to help. The areas they go to may have been ravaged by a natural disaster or are poverty stricken areas. Their speculate to go may vary but most go with just a desire to help the local residents.
Medical missions are organized to go to disadvantaged spots colse to the world: Honduras, Ecuador, Madagascar, Nigeria, Panama, Thailand, Burmese, Haiti, Argentina, India, and many more too numerous to name. Once they arrive at their destination, they many times find the conditions they are to do their work in is very primitive: hot with no shade, wind that blows dust and debris into everything, rain, insects and hostile gangs and governments.
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The volunteers go to help out in hospitals, treating patients with distinct ailments: Hiv/Aids, pneumonia, meningitis, blood infections, diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, infections, boils, vision problems (infections and abscesses), etc. Sometimes the volunteers will go to remote villages where the people is unable to voyage to larger towns, where clinics or a small hospital are located. In these remote locations, the people may never have seen a medical person in their life or it may have been many years in the middle of visits, or they are newborn babies or toddlers needing check-ups. The whole of patients can be overwhelming. And many have traveled long distances and hours to get to the temporary clinic. The medical personal will not only treat the sick or injured but will try to educate them on how their lifestyles supervene their health.
Other volunteers will go to a disaster area to help the overloaded local medical personnel. These volunteers will work long days and weeks with limited rest or time off, in make shift hospitals, with medical teams from colse to the world. Wave after wave of trauma injuries, that were the supervene of an earthquake, flood, fire, or hurricane will come to the hospitals with injuries that comprise fractures, infections, tetanus and some injuries so sever that amputation is the only way to save the patient.
But all volunteers must leave and return to their homes, loved ones and work. They leave behind what appears to be unfinished work. Although the work they did will have an everlasting impact on the local population, there is still a need for more volunteers.
Organizations such as Share a Vision, Rotary clubs, churches, Faith Alive (in Nigeria), International medical Relief, Doctors Without Borders, P.R.O. Mission, and many, many more are doing their part to help those in need.
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