Water Filters to Tamanique

PazSalud is committed to improving the short-term and long-term health of every community we serve.  During our General Medical Missions in February our physicians 'prescribe' water filters to families suffering the effects of consuming El Salvador's polluted water.  With this list of patients, PazSalud works with CIS' community water filter program to raise awareness of the vital link between clean water and public health and to train families on how to use the Sawyer water filter. 

PazSalud donates 100 water filters to every community that hosts our medical missions and we help them get into the hands of people who need them the most.

The first patient meeting

Luis and Maira from CIS training patient on how to use the PazSalud-donated water filters

Learning to assemble and care for the filter

Special order glasses

During every PazSalud General Mission, our team of optometrists identifies patients who have specialized, often complicated glasses prescriptions that we can not fill from our supply of glasses  donated from the U.S.  In these cases, our volunteers will take their prescriptions and have lenses specially made for them in the U.S.

A very special thanks to Walman Optical who so generously made and donated the glasses and Michelle Toney from PeaceHealth Optical whose efforts made it all possible for me to recently deliver customized, special ordered glasses to enable them to see the world like they never have before.  The smiles on their faces tell you all you need to know about how happy they are.

Chelsea

Dolores

 

Jonathan

Patricia

Medical donations

After every mission, PazSalud donates surplus, unused medications to the local health clinics who are very grateful to receive the items, most of which are not available to them.

This is one of the many ways PazSalud demonstrates it's commitment to the communities with whom we work and show our appreciation for all the support they gave us to make our February, 2015  mission such a success.

Mission volunteers

Absolutely essential to a successful mission is close collaboration and coordination with local volunteers and once again we’re lucky to be working with a motivated and capable team of people from Tamanique.  The volunteer team assists us with myriad tasks during the mission and without them it would be impossible for us to provide the care we do in the rural areas we like to serve.  They identify needy patients for the mission, coordinate their transport to and from the mission site, they register patients, help them navigate the various stages of the mission, interpret for our volunteers and help with many, many additional tasks.

Their dedication and devotion to helping the poorest members of their community is inspiring and we’re proud to work side-by-side with them to create a healthier and happier future for Tamanique.

Maira, our local coordinator, explaining the mission to volunteers

Discussing the patient flow at the mission site

Our diagram of where the medical team members will be located