Opportunity provided by
St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center
Provides free medical, surgical, dental care, pre-natal and post-natal care, and arranges for surgical missions to Honduras.
The St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center is a two story facility with consult rooms, a pre-op area, 4 operating rooms, recovery room, patient rooms for short-term recovery after surgery, a pharmacy, a dental clinic, and the St. Gerard Program for pre and post-natal care.
An essential part of the St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center is to host visiting surgical teams who offer their services free of charge to the poor. Almost every kind of surgery and specialty that can be carried out in a mostly outpatient facility is needed.
Six to seven times a year, medical brigades from the United States come to offer surgical procedures otherwise unavailable to the poor.
This opportunity is located in Comayagua, Honduras.