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Hands for Health Foundation - Guatemala Impact


Guatemala

Our Impact

Missions

12

Patients Treated

7,600

Volunteers

350

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Hands for Health Foundation - Guatemala Missions


View the impact and memories the Hands for Health Foundation has made on our global medical outreach missions in Guatemala.

Hands for Health Foundation - Guatemala Missions


View the impact and memories the Hands for Health Foundation has made on our global medical outreach missions in Guatemala.

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Guatemala 2020 - Health Clinics, Languages, Culture on the Cusp of a Pandemic
Guatemala 2020 - Health Clinics, Languages, Culture on the Cusp of a Pandemic

A Wrinkle In Time could well describe our Guatemala 2020 medical trip. In late February our medical team left behind our customary lifestyles in the USA to offer clinics in Guatemala sponsored by Hands for Health Foundation and Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine. When we returned three weeks later, accustomed sights had morphed into the surreal. We encountered the CLOSED, CANCELED, and SUSPENDED. In medical offices, which were fast becoming virtual, the dreaded C-word for disease—Cancer-- had ceded first place to Coronavirus.

Guatemala | When Tears Crept Close in Guatemala—reflections on a 4-year-old patient
Guatemala | When Tears Crept Close in Guatemala—reflections on a 4-year-old patient

On the school global outreach trip to Guatemala, a particularly difficult patient encounter allowed me to reflect on my fears and anxieties about entering the clinical years of my medical education.

By: Alexandra Lee

Guatemala Outreach Summary 2016
Guatemala Outreach Summary 2016

A group of 32 volunteers representing the Hands for Health Foundation and RVUCOM traveled to Guatemala to provide primary health care to people living in the Lake Atitlan region, about 3 hours southwest from the capital, Guatemala City.

Glimpses of Guatemala - affirming a call to medical service
Glimpses of Guatemala - affirming a call to medical service

Glimpses of Guatemala and the RVU medical team who ran four clinics treating nearly 600 patients from March 4-13, 2016

Guatemalan Healing
Guatemalan Healing

There is a self-healing mechanism always at work inside you … This doesn’t mean Osteopaths should sit at the side of the table, hands lightly hovering over the patient, doing nothing, as some critics of this gentle style of [medical] practice accuse us of doing