Washington Overseas Medical Mission will be planning future Brigades to Honduras. We will be building two teams with people who fit the needs of the group in the areas of medicine, dental, pharmacy, glasses, paps, and ability to communicate in Spanish.
Active healthcare professionals as well as retired adults and high school seniors and others are a part of our trip. We need doctors, nurses, dentists, dental assistants, pharmacists and other health care providers to apply, as well as individuals who can assist with the Construction team. We are always on the lookout for translators to help with the trip, while we encourage our volunteers to learn Spanish as we need individuals fluent in the Spanish language.
Our volunteer healthcare specialists and non-specialist set up mobile clinics in remote villages that otherwise would not have access to healthcare. We are able to provide general medical care, wound care, screening gynecological exams, some surgical procedures and dental care, including extraction and restoration, and health education. Our pharmacists provide safe distribution of medications to the people. Through the dedicated work of our volunteers we are able to provide reading and sunglasses.
Our healthcare services continue year-round through our support of a full service dental clinic in Pimienta and a medical clinic in San Antonio both built by our construction teams. It is our mission to ensure the people whom we care for receive follow up care as needed. These clinics and our relationship with the local healthcare professionals make this possible. We also help supply medicine that lasts for several months after we leave. When ordering meds for our annual trip, we order a surplus with the intent of leaving behind medicines for clinics or trained healthcare professional in the area where we have worked.
