A group of US medical professionals from a group called InterVol have been volunteering the Southern Regional Hospital this week.
The group comprises 40 persons, 22 of them from the medical field, including gynecologists, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, dentists and rural doctors.
Cindy Gordon outlined some of the work they are doing.
Cindy Gordon - InterVol, Reg'd Nurse
"As far as the medical side of things, we have 2 gynecologist with us and this week while we're here in the hospital, the local gynecologists were not available. So our GYN doctors have also taken over in that area, not only seeing the patients, they're going to see them in the clinics, also covering the patients here. We've seen a lot of need for surgical intervention, such as hysterectomies, or removal of thyroids or ovarian cisst or even removing someone's ovaries because of them being sick. We also have this year for the first time, a dental team; we have the dentist and the dental assistant, and they've been doing a lot of teeth extractions. They've been doing a lot of cleanings and just basic dental care, in the villages; it's all primary dental care. So basically, it's a lot of pediatrics, a lot of children - basically we see a lot of mothers and children, because the husband are obviously off working, as we find when we go in these real communities. So, it's a mix of both, the basic basic primary care."
This is InterVol's 10th year in Belize...
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