Foreign Travel Information

Healing the Children - Southwest Chapter
is scheduling medical missions to
Central and South America for 2010- 2011.
We need surgeons, anesthesiologists, pediatricians or
family practice, nurses, physician assistants.
CAN YOU JOIN US?
505-228-1404 - email: htc_sw@hotmail.com

We build teams around a surgical specialty. Surgeons, anesthesiologists, doctors, and nurses interested in travel to Central America in late 2010 and South America in 2011 should contact us as soon as possible.   Travel to these countries usually begins on Saturday, screening is done on Sunday. Teams operate from Monday through Friday noon, and return to U.S. on the following Saturday. Volunteers can extend their trip if they choose.  We are asking that an educational exchange time be set aside during each trip.

Healing the Children can also help arrange trips for physicians interested in providing free clinics to rural areas.

All expenses are met by the volunteers. Tickets to San Salvador begin at $500; to Guatemala City $600; to Guayaquil $850. Cost for meals and lodging vary, and some may be provided by the host country. Healing the Children has a very small fund to help defer expenses for nurses from New Mexico. Information is available on ways volunteers can raise money for their expenses.  Contact HTC with questions and more information. 

Healing the Children -SW  is a member of Medical Mission Exchange (www.mmex.org),   the One Nurse At A Time project (www.onenurseatatime.org) Check out their websites.

2010 Surgical Missions (also see the Bulletin Board)

El Salvador:  October 23 - 30.   Urology.  Contact Bobbye 505-228-1401 or healingthechildren@comcast.net

2011 Surgical Missions (also see the Bulletin Board)

Ecuador:   La Troncal.  Plastics -  Early 2011

Ecuador:   Cuenca - ENT and Plastics - Fall 2011

HTC Thanks past Mission Volunteers

(click on the year for pictures; some are still under; construction so check back)

El Salvador 2007 (ENT and Urology), 2008 (ENT and Urology), 2009 (Gen Peds and ENT)

Guatemala 2008 (ENT and Podiatry),  2008 (Gen Peds), 2009 (ENT)