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Healing the Children: medical missions.

In 1993, I started documenting medical missions organised by the American-based, non-profit organisation Healing the Children (HTC). With 14 chapters in 21 states, HTC has helped tens of thousands of children worldwide since it was founded in 1979. The organisation arranges specialised medical treatment and surgical care for children whose families cannot afford it or whose communities do not offer it. HTC relies entirely on volunteers. In 1995, the northeast chapter of HTC alone provided more than $7.5 million in services to about 2300 children. HTC also provides treatment and assistance to disadvantaged children in US communities, arranges special care in the USA for children from nearly 60 countries, and recruits organisations to provide supplies and refurbished equipment to hospitals in underdeveloped countries. In October, 1994, I travelled with an HTC team of over 50 medical personnel on a cardiac trip to Guatemala City. More recently, in April, 1996, I documented a team of 11 who travelled to Cochahamba, Bolivia, to carry out soft tissue surgery.

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PubMed1991

Pioneer medical missions in colonial Africa.

Protestant and Roman Catholic missions pioneered Western medicine and public health in much of Africa decades in advance of health services provided by colonial governments. A century later church-based hospitals and health care programs continue to account for 25% to 50% of available services in most African countries. In view of the important historical and continuing role of medical missions it is remarkable that there have been no systematic scholarly studies of the impacts of these pioneer institutions on the geography of health and social change in colonial Africa. How, for example, was the health of African populations and the areas they inhabited changed by the activities of medical missions? And how did Africans respond to Western medicine and its alien institutional social and technological structures and relations? This paper develops the historical context and conceptual framework for investigating such topics. It presents a detailed research agenda organized around nine themes, each of which suggests a series of interrelated questions. The methodology employs the techniques of medical and historical geography, and is based on comparative, longitudinal case-studies of medical missions at the local level coupled with archival study.

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PubMed1989

Medical missions.

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PubMed1999

Medical missions.

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PubMed1999

Medical mission to Honduras. December 20, 1998-January 2, 1999.

This is the story of a team of medical professionals who responded to an appeal from Church World Services in New York to provide two weeks of primary care for Honduran people in areas devastated by Hurricane Mitch. It was a remarkable experience to see how a small team of changing physicians, nurses, and support personnel could function effectively although they had not known each other, or ever worked together before. Over a period of two weeks with two major holiday weekends and an unusual amount of time spent in travel, the team in seven working days provided primary care to about 500 patients ages 1 day to 82 years with limited medical supplies and no laboratory resources. The patients resided in rural villages, without electricity or running water, which could only be reached over poor rural roads. Full credit should be given to the Honduran CCD which provided support services for the dedicated, compassionate American volunteers, and to the Honduran villagers who patiently waited, often in the rain, to be seen. It is hoped that the medical services were as helpful to the recipients as the experience was to the team participants. There is little doubt that long run efforts of CCD and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are needed to stimulate overall improvement in the standard of living in rural villages. Future sustained development will take local leadership to stimulate interest in a better future by spacing children so they can have improved education and healthier living conditions.

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