Meet the Patient: Daniel Saldaña
Something that defines the children and adolescents from the current generation is a passion for being connected. They like to be in constant contact with those around them, especially their…
Patient Stories
Patient Story: Julio cesar Mendez
Our various medical campaigns not only help our current patients, they also help us find new follow up patients. Eleven year old Julio Cesar Mendez Tica, a child who has overcome great difficulties,is…
Patient Story: Jose Luis Solizor
Sometimes we encounter patients through means other than mobile clinics. This is the case of José Luis Solizor, a 26-year-old who, like many in Peru, works hard for his family. More than anything he…
Paving The Road To A Healthy Future For Edison Tagua
Like most 11 year olds, our patient Edison Tagua from Ecuador loves playing soccer and being active with his friends. But unlike his peers, he had long-suffered from a condition…
Patient Story: Mwajabu, the first MEDLIFE patient in Tanzania.
When MEDLIFE began mobile clinics in Tanzania we encountered many new medical situations, firsts and opportunities to show how we care. None a more heart-wrenching and ultimately inspiring patient…
A new wheelchair for Luis Poma
Luis Pomo is a 6-year-old boy from Lima, Peru who suffers from blindness and muscular dysplasia. Unable to walk his mother carries him everywhere on her back: up and down…
Patient Story: Selvestrina, fighting against all odds
The mornings in community “Unión Santa Fe” are very cold. It’s a cold that grinds your teeth and hurts your bones. A cold so damp that it encloses you as…
Patient Story: Noemi Quishpi
Noemi being attended to by a doctor at MEDLIFE’s office in Riobamba, Ecuador. A MEDLIFE mobile clinic is much more than merely a temporary medical station. In every station,…
Patient Story: Julio Pineda
We met 52-year old Julio Pineda during a mobile clinic in March 2013 when Julio did not have anyone to turn to. Julio lived in Comas, one of the…
Patient Story: Marco Receives the Best Birthday Gift
Marco and his parents Maria and Jose Maria after his knee surgery. (Photo by Martha Chicaiza) “How old are you?” I ask Marco, who looks at me with a…
Patient Story: Jimena Sarango
We encountered 5-year old Jimena Sarango in the hills of Laderas Nueva Esperanza one afternoon playing hopscotch she had scratched into the dirt. Her father Reynaldo hacked away at…
Patient Story: Daniela Chimbo
On the third day of clinic in Tena, Ecuador, an older woman walked in to the doctors’ station with a crying child. The little girl’s name is Daniela Belen…