Wish List for Medical & Cataract Surgical Mission to Ecuador May 2025
Below are supplies our team will need in order to examine & treat patients… perhaps you would like to purchase an item as a holiday gift for a loved one! Below print your gift receipt. There are all price ranges to fit everyone’s wallet… Sights On Health is a nonprofit tax exempt organization as described in...
Would you like to join our team?
We are preparing for our Cataract Surgical & Medical Mission 2025 Riobamba, Ecuador. Would you like to join our team? May 16-23, 2025 Flights: Round trip JFK-Quito, Ecuador We are accepting donations through our PayPal link to assist in purchasing medical & surgical supplies for the mission. Volunteers needed Medicine team: they will travel to communities for 4 to 5 days 3-4 MDS...
Best Wishes for Happy Holidays
Despite this year’s challenging times, Sights on Health, Inc. has been able to offer support to those in need in Peru, New York, and Native American reservations in South Dakota & the Southwest. As a result of your generosity Sights on Health’s gift giving fundraising drive has purchased $5,000 worth of fingertip pulse oximeters; 200 devices have been delivered...
3-D Printed Face Shields by Chris Karavoulias & Adam Luter
Many thanks to Chris Karavoulias & Adam Luter from Massachusetts. Using their own personal printers, they are printing 3-D face shields to provide frontline healthcare workers face protection. They joined a group dedicated to bringing together people with 3-D printers and hospitals in need - www.makersforcovid19.com So far, Chris & Adam have made more than 250...
We Stand By You – A Note About The Covid – 19 Pandemic
All of us at Sights on Health feel ourselves in solidarity with healthcare providers who are working and struggling their way through the Covid-19 pandemic. As a medical and surgical charity providing care abroad with limited resources, we have an idea what it’s like to provide optimal care in tough circumstances. Now at this time, here in our own community, our physicians,...
My life changing experiences with Sights on Health
By Damaris Raymondi I’ve been on five mission trips with the A Promise to Peru/Sights on Health team. All of them have been life changing both for the patients and for myself. But I was not ready for what I witnessed in the city of Maras. The need and the ocular issues we saw were...
Third Mission 2019 Ecuador- Day #8: Heads, Hearts, and Hands in Harmony
This blog post is written by Pallavi Tatapudy, MS4 at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University who served as co-leader of the 2017 medical and surgical mission to Sacred Valley, Perú organized by A Promise to Peru. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”...
Third Mission 2019 Ecuador – Day #7: Gratitude
This blog post is written by Pallavi Tatapudy, MS4 at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University who served as co-leader of the 2017 medical and surgical mission to Sacred Valley, Perú organized by A Promise to Peru. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It...
Packing for Ecuador!
Our weeks of packing culminated this past Saturday final packing session. Our cataract surgical team will transport to Ecuador on September 21st 17 suitcases and 5 carryons. Thanks to Jet Blue’s generosity the second checked in piece of luggage fee has been waived for all four of our flights. Thank you to our team for...
Blog Post #3 – 2017 Mission
This post is a little more personal because after the first day our clinics become routine. Today I worked in the eye clinic performing visual acuity exams. We were stationed outside the optometry clinic in a small outdoor courtyard with two benches and 3 eye charts taped to the wall. Even though the courtyard was...
Blog Post #1 2017 Mission
By Christine Chevalier We traveled from JFK airport in New York all the way to Calca, Peru with a layover in Lima! Our journey began at 7:30pm(EST) on June 9 and we arrived in Calca at 3pm(CST), making a total travel time of 19.5 hours. Our dedicated team came mostly from New York, but also from as diverse places...
Fundraiser Dinner Dance – photos!
A big thank you to all who supported us to make the Fundraiser Dinner Dance a success!! Natalie DiGioia, M.D., George Coritsidis, M.D., Caty Roberts, Debra Messina, M.D., Michael Sable, M.D. and Jim Rienzo Dr. Natalie DiGioia with the two medical student leaders, Jared Su and Pallavi Tatapudy. Dr. Messina with Ambassador Maria Teresa...