Foreign Travel Information

Healing the Children - Southwest Chapter
is scheduling medical missions to
Central America for 2008.
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 and anesthesiologists interested in travel to Central America in late 2009 should contact us as soon as possible.   Anesthesiologists, physician assistants, and nurses interested in travel to Guatemala or El Salvador in the spring of 2009 please see below.  Travel to Central American countries 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 $788; to Guatemala City $802. 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.

2009 Medical Missions

We need one OR nurse/PA for Guatemala March 7 - 14 (ENT surgery);   OR and recovery nuerses for El Salvador March 28 - April 4 (ENT and general pediatrics surgery); and Anesthesiologists for Guatemala May 15 -20 (podiatry surgery).

Anyone interested in volunteering should get in touch with Bobbye Krehbiel (505 401-8576; r.krehbiel@comcast.net) or our chapter director Rita Lavin (505 228-1404; htc_sw@hotmail.com).

If you are unable to travel this year, please help us by passing along this information. Feel free to print and distribute the flyer.

Thank you.

Many thanks to everyone who traveled to Guatemala in March 2008 (click here for names)!  and April 2008 (click here)  and to El Salvador in 2008!  click here.