Medical Missions to Support Sustainable Health Programs
Our Medical Programs
Physicians for Peace is a results driven organization that is committed to making a world of difference in the lives of the underserved. While our organization is small, our capacity to meet and even exceed our goals and objectives comes from a unique combination of a highly skilled and motivated professional staff and a cadre of hundreds of well-respected and capable medical practitioners who make selfless sacrifices to help Physicians for Peace help others.
Staying from one to six weeks, Physicians for Peace teams trains local medical professionals in host countries. We have brought modern aspects of pediatric and family health care to people in places where such care had never before been available.We have partnered with humanitarian organizations, universities and governments to increase access to decent healthcare throughout the developing world.
We have developed a number of specific, sustainable programs, each in response to a particular need voiced by the nations that we visit. Each of these core programs follows specific methodologies, and can be replicated in other nations facing similar health-care needs.
| The Walking Free program provides education and training to medical professionals involved in the treatment of amputees, fitting patients with prostheses, providing physical rehabilitation and establishing sustainable prosthetic and rehabilitation centers in underserved regions. The Burn Care program trains in-country medical professionals to provide reconstructive burn surgery and to develop prevention and treatment education programs. Additionally, the program promotes the development of burn clinics, and training in the manufacture and use of burn compression garments for burn treatment. Dental CareThe Physicians for Peace Dental Program works to enhance dental treatment, dental student skills, public dental clinic services, and preventive dental-care techniques for indigent patients. Seeing ClearlyThe Seeing Clearly program provides education and training for medical professionals and medical students who offer vision exams and vision treatment for indigent patients. Additionally, eyeglass banks provide free or inexpensive prescription glasses to tens of thousands of patients. | Many missions of Physicians for Peace focus on specific surgical needs outside of our standing programs. These missions provide life-saving and life-changing surgeries in a reas such as cleft palate reconstruction, open-heart surgery, and other areas Resource Mothers The Resource Mothers program works in impoverished neighborhoods to train local mothers to work with pregnant adolescent girls, mentoring these young women in prenatal care, childbirth and post-partum and newborn care. MidwiferyPhysicians for Peace has created an educational training program focusing on midwives, educating on issues such as abnormal labor, post partum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and basic neonatal life. PALS/NALS TrainingPrenatal and Neonatal Advanced Life Saving Training covers a wide range of pediatric care techniques, from basic hygiene and infection control to IV therapy, developmental care, and much more. |
