HELPING HANDS Medical Missions provide short-term trips by medical personnel to poor areas throughout the developing world to provide medical attention in the fullness of the Catholic tradition. Services provided include: surgeries, dental care, physical therapy, consultations, distribution of medications, house calls, and Natural Family Planning courses.
Our HELPING HANDS Medical Missionaries also take part in the mission’s spiritual program of daily prayer, Mass, meditation, classes on the Church’s teachings in the field of bio-ethics, and door-to-door evangelization visits.
The group plans to send a team to Santa María de Jesús in Sacatepéquez from October 23-31, 2009. From March 19-27, 2010, the group will be in Escuintla.
On the group’s last medical mission to Guatemala, there were 36 individuals on the medical team, serving 2,100 patients. They performed 74 surgeries, and saw 418 dental cases. A variety of surgeries were performed, including gall bladder, inguinal and abdominal hernias, tonsillectomies, septal deviations and a variety of cysts were removed from patients.
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