A very special thank you goes out to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center for donating over 35 new scrubs to PazSalud! We were recently able to pass on this generous donation to Dr. Alfredo Enrique González, the Director of the National Hospital of Santiago de Maria - where we conducted our 2013 Eye Surgery Mission - who is now able to outfit his entire pediatric department personnel with free scrubs. It is very common in El Salvador for hospitals to require that their employees purchase their own scrubs which places an extra burden on already stretched paychecks, especially among the lower-paid positions like nurses, techs and maintenance workers. A donation of scrubs makes a big impact in the lives of individual employees at public hospitals who work tirelessly to care for the poorest people of El Salvador and who make our surgery missions possible. Thank you PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center!
The photo below shows Dr. González (right) with Marvin Hernandez, who was our great partner in Estanzuelas and in last year's surgery mission in the small National Hospital at Santiago de Maria.
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