Physicians for Peace

   For a week long mission trip, a group of urologists and their teams came down from Norfolk and Ottowa to perform surgeries on children in the public hospital here in Moca.  The Foundation was here to assist the physicians in any way possible, and to make sure that their mission group went as planned.  We worked closely with one of our partner foundations, Fundación Niños qué Reín, to provide lodging and meals for the whole group and to assist in the hospital settings as much as possible.

                

Here Dr. Horton and his 4th year resident, Chris, performed a surgery as the director of the hospital and a medical student watched and observed the surgeons’ techniques.  A goal that the Foundation shares with the Physicians for Peace program is to not only do mission work, but to educate the local healthcare staff of the country as well.

 

In this photo Kim, the CRNA, injected the patient with a caudal block in order to numb the lower half of the body before surgery began.

Dr. Luis Diaz, co-founder of one of our partner Foundations and a general surgeon in the Dominican Republic, observes the work of Dr. Leonard and his 4th year resident, Gayana.  A typical surgery usually lasted between 1 and 3 hours. 

In all the Physicians for Peace mission group performed 33 surgeries in their 5 days of free surgeries at the hospital.  The families and patients were all extremely thankful and gracious towards the teams, and we hoping that the physicians may be able to return in 6-9 months to perform check ups and possibly perform more surgeries!

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