Obtaining and carrying equipment and supplies into villages far removed from hospitals or clinics is a logistical ordeal for the medical team.
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Left: Volunteer Dentist Dr. Byron with patient
When Conscience International Latin America Program Director, Dr. Jurguen Kiehnle returns to Guatemala, he focuses on helping people who can’t help themselves in some of the poorest, most remote villages where health services are non-existent.
By creating partnerships with local medical professionals and volunteers, Dr. Kiehnle has formed a coalition team willing to take on the challenges of bringing life-saving, revitalizing care to those with no access to health specialists.
While the medical team donates personal time and skills, a bigger challenge is to find funds for medicines, supplies, and the basic equipment to get the job done.
Presently in country, the team—in spite of weather delays-- has already conducted a dental clinic in Taxisco, where Conscience International relocated families and built 14 houses free of charge for those who lost their homes in the 2010 volcano eruption in San Miguel de Los Lotes. Dental work requires a lot of equipment, properly sterilized, which adds to the logistical challenges. Family income, here, is only about $350 per month—just enough to cover basics like food, in-house supplies, and transportation, with nothing left over for healthcare or education.
Village flooding adds to the logistical problem
This week the team is setting up a medical clinic, concentrating on populations in the Departments of Sololá, with its Mayan people and culture, and also in Santa Rosa, which includes non-Mayan indigenous people. From there the team will move on to Chimaltenango, in the central highlands, where Conscience International, in 2023, supported a rescue and development project for children who were living, working, and playing in garbage dumps, scavenging for food and something to sell in order to basically exist.
Weather delays and road blocks
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