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The MEDICO Pranza, Gracias a Dios, Honduras 2023 trip was my second to this quiet town along the Rio Coco river which forms the border with Nicaragua. I’ve been to La Moskitia (aka The Mosquito Coast) about five or six times now. Some of the remote villages are only accessible by boat crossing the large lagoon between […]
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In late June and early July 2022, local guides from Puerto Lempira on the northeast coast of Honduras took a brigade of MEDICO doctors, dentists, nurses, staff, and interpreters across the enormous Caratasca Lagoon in our open boat packed with our gear and anticipation. We then navigated a maze of quiet, winding river mangroves until […]
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Many kudos to George, Natalie, Craig, Kristin, Angela, Mike, Steve, Chris, Sung and Stan along with all those from Honduras who completed the MEDICO team to Pranza, Honduras. It certainly was a WOW week for this team! The team saw 297 medical patients and 98 dental patients. They also constructed improvements to the clinic […]
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Leaving today and this weekend, a MEDICO medical-dental team will make its first visit to the community of Pranza on the Honduras-Nicaragua border. Pranza is a small place in the Department of Gracias a Dios in eastern Honduras, located along the Rio Coco, the river that forms the border with Nicaragua. Pranza is in an […]
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The following narrative is shared by one of MEDICO’s recently returned team volunteers to Uhi, Honduras. We again thank another wonderful group of volunteers who stepped forward to share in this experience of “service beyond self.” Last week MEDICO went back to the community of Uhi, located on the far eastern tip of Honduras in the region […]
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It was a great feeling for MEDICO to be able to take its first full team back to Honduras, post-COVID. The team of 12 from the states, in addition to 7 in-country volunteer medical professionals and interpreters, picked up where they left off almost 2 years ago, spending 5 days serving the community of […]
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For the last 16 months, COVID-related travel restrictions prevented MEDICO from placing any medical, educational or construction teams in the field in Honduras. During that time, we shifted gears and began shipping COVID-related medical supplies to hard-hit Honduran hospitals. Locating N95 masks, gowns and gloves in the US wasn’t easy in early 2020 but for many Honduran doctors and […]
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