July 1-5th Sacred Valley, Peru The Sights on Health team just returned from their John Shanley M.D. M.P.H. Medical & Eye Care Mission in the Sacred Valley of Peru. It was an extremely successful mission; 815 people were examined in the medical and eye clinics. The clinics were held in the Ministry of Health (MOH)...
DAY 1: What do they say about best laid plans? Date: June 29th, 2019 Location: New York, NY By Kaitlin Monroig Our blogger for the John Shanley M.D. M.P.H. 2019 Medical Mission was Kaitlyn Monroig. She is a rising second year medical student from Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook, NY. After several months of planning,...
Great news to share!! Sights on Health/A Promise to Peru received an incredible donation of $ 4,235.77…. this donation will cover the cost of the medications, supplies and equipment purchased for the 2019 John Shanley M.D. M.P.H. Medical and Eye Care Mission THANK YOU from all of the team in Peru to Lucky and Laura Bhalla of...
Date: July 5th, 2019 Location: Urubamba, Peru By Kaitlin Monroig And just like that we finished our last day of clinic! We set up in Urubamba for the last time this week. Although we were only able to stay for a half day, we saw over sixty patients! Over the entire week we saw over 750...
Today is the last day of our Peru 2019 John Shanley M.D. M.P.H. Medical & Eye Care Mission…..Thank you to our AMAZING U.S.A. team for donating their time & talents to make the mission so successful…. Dr George Coritsidis – Medical Director & team leader from NY Mike Cipoletti, FNE, Int’l – In country logistics...
Date: July 4th, 2019 Location: Marás, Peru By Kaitlin Monroig We are so fortunate for the gifts we have received and we are thankful you chose to share them. Today we were in Marás, Peru! Marás is a very small town in the mountains located near a salt mine. We saw over 150 patients between the eye...
Many thanks to Dr. Victor Rozas and his staff at PAMS/Peruvian American Medical Society. Every year since 2012, Dr. Rozas obtains the letter of invitation from the Peruvian Ministry of Health as well as the temporary medical licenses for our healthcare providers. Many hours of behind the scenes work between him, Cathy Roberts and Dr. Messina goes...
A heartfelt thank you to Dr Francisco Morales for his many years of service to our NGO. Since 2013 he was worked as a liaison between Drs. Messina & Coritsidis and the Regional director of the ministry of health. In the months leading up to our arrival, he will screen patients according the the types...
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Date: July 3rd, 2019 Location: Urubamba, Peru By Kaitlin Monroig Another day, another hundred patients seen! Today we set up clinic at el centro de salud in Urubamba. It is a fully functioning clinic within walking distance from where we are staying. As a group we provided an additional resource for medical and eye care. Ultrasound and diagnostic...
Many thanks to CEPRECE Clinic, Cuzco and Dr Silva Frilo for sending his nurse Maritza Olarte to work with our eye doctors, Dr Raymondi and Leong for the entire week. Maritza has been such a big help with screening the patients in our eye clinic. Thank you ! Nurse Maritza with Dr Raymondi in Calca.
Date: July 2, 2019 Location: Calca, Peru By Kaitlin Monroig Word spreads quickly in Peru! After a busy day in Calca yesterday, we saw almost twice as many patients today! However, we created a more efficient system for intake and were able to trouble shoot and problem we faced. In addition, our medical students shadowing physicians...
