Clinical Medical Care, Brigades and Volunteers
Guatemalan child awaits care at surgical hospital .
In a country where over 70 percent of the rural and indigenous population lives in abject poverty, nothing is as difficult as obtaining modern medical care. With over seventy percent of all physicians working in Guatemala City, the rural populations have only one doctor for every 10,000 people on average. Without adequate medical care and education, it is difficult for these rural communities to prosper and grow. Rural clinics are often understaffed and under equipped, difficult to reach and have few, if any, medications.
AMEDICAusa medical programs include supplying donated medical equipment, medicines and maintenance supplies to our partner clinics and bringing medical professionals to volunteer in rural clinics alongside their Guatemalan colleagues. In addition, we also partner with larger groups who wish to come to Guatemala as medical brigades providing specialty care not normally available to rural and indigenous Guatemalans.
AMEDICAusa President Neale Brown and Vice President Eduardo Castillo Di Vito of Fundación Castillo Cordova meeting in Tzununá
AMEDICAusa is currently arranging a partnership with Fundación Castillo Cordova at their project at Tzununá, on Lago Atitlán in south central Guatemala. Pending approval of the Guatemalan Ministry of Health, we will begin operations at the clinic built by the foundation, providing medical care, equipment and volunteers. The Tzununá project will serve as our headquarters in the area as well, giving us a base from which we can start our educational support to the village and surrounding schools, and support and training for the local emergency services.