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Message and Goals from the Vice President
Medical Mission/Outreach:
Medical Mission/ OutreachEl Salvador
While the mission began as a mobile mission, the people living in these villages have recently built local, one-room clinics in appreciation of VCOM’s assistance. The clinics are open on a rotating schedule with an average of 20 to 30 patients seen each day. In addition to village settings, the outreach mission cares for children in four orphanages and one malnutrition center. One of the orphanages cares for predominantly HIV-positive children and others provide unique serves to children orphaned. The malnutrition center cares for severely malnourished infants who have been abandoned by their families, whose mothers have not survived, or whose family cannot afford to feed them. In addition to food and medicines, the VCOM students provide the healing and/or comforting support of touch, holding, playing with, and comforting these children. |
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VCOM missions provide health literacy programs for the communities they serve. Students are introduced to the concept of physicians as community health educators and are taught strategies to communicate health information to individual patients and the public.
Our commitment to global health by establishing local health clinics and responding to disasters is discussed further in our overview of Medical Missions and in each Mission site Web page of the Medical Missions section. Click below or on the links to the right to go to information on Appalachia, Dominican Republic, and Honduras.
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he outreach mission clinics in El Salvador began as mobile clinics in the rural mountainous border area of the State of Chalatenango. Each of the four selected communities has an estimated population of 80 families (240 families and over 1200 patients). Prior to VCOM’s arrival these families lacked basic access to essential healthcare. In some communities there is no vehicle, no potable water, and they are without appropriate sanitation services. 
