Patient Update: Eloy Britto
Today we have some good news to share from Lima: after finally getting heart surgery on December 14th, Eloy Britto is back home with his family and on track to…
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Mobile Clinic Update: Riobamba, Ecuador
Post republished from the MEDLIFE McGill blog. Today was our first day as a group working together. For some of us arriving into Ecuador at around 3:00 a.m.…
Photo Update: A Bathroom for Ccaccaccollo
We just received these photos from Ccaccaccollo, a community outside Cusco, Peru, where we constructed new bathroom facilities starting in August. The community has been putting the finishing touches on the…
My Take on Inequality and Health Care in Peru
In today’s issue of El Comercio, Peru’s main daily newspaper, this headline caught my eye. It reads, “Only 39.6% of the budget allocated to healthcare was used in 2012.”…
50:50 Campaign Spotlight: Neha Nidhi
A third year at Ohio State University, Neha Nidhi likes a challenge. Despite a busy schedule balancing premed classes, a double major in Spanish and biology, and working as an…
Photo Update: Staircase Construction
This week’s Mobile Clinic in Lima is one of our biggest to date, with almost 100 volunteers from schools all over the United States. That means we can serve twice…
Patient Update: Esther Veronica Continues to Battle with Childhood Leukemia
The Baca Ortiz Pediatric Hospital in Quito is a sprawling red and white rectangular complex. Fittingly for a children’s hospital, it looks like a life-sized Lego construction. Outside, street vendors…
Holiday Cheer in Unión Santa Fe
This week’s Mobile Clinic, made up of students from Florida International University, got off to an early start Sunday with a special holiday event in Unión Santa Fe. As you…
Slow But Steady: Mariano Borja and Culluctus Bathroom Construction Updates
Don Pedro picks us up in the late morning. Martha sits in the front seat, and I sandwich myself between Mirian Manzano, a coordinator for Colta’s Department of Education,…
Project Update: Wawa Wasi Construction in Unión Santa Fe
MEDLIFE began planning for our first Wawa Wasi Day Care construction project approximately seven months ago, in April of 2012. The Wawa Wasi is an important national day care program…
Mobile Clinic Update: Dana Hills High School
Our first Mobile Clinic of the season marked another first for MEDLIFE — a clinic made up entirely of high school student volunteers! Over Thanksgiving week, 50 students and six…
School as a Second Home: Columbe Lote 1 y 2, Ecuador
The road goes from pavement to cobblestone, to dirt. Small tin-roofed houses reveal themselves, hidden high in the hills. They can only be found by following the trail of concrete…