Program areas at International Medical Alliance of Tennessee
The frontier region of the Dominican Republic at the Haitian border: Mission Trips: (1) January 7 - 13, 2023, Administrative and resupply trip, to meet with Salud Publica (Public Health) officials and to restock pharmacy. Team spent 2 days in capitol meeting with officials and 4 days on the frontier preparing clinic for spring mission groups. (2) Medical/GYN/ Ophthalmology team February 11 - 27 2023. Team of 42 consisting of MD's, Surgeons, NP's, RN's a Paramedic, interpreters and medical students. Mission Totals: Medical clinics 502 patients seen, 1119 Rx's given. Women's Health 93 women seen, Pap Smears 66 and 23 ultrasounds done, Ophthalmology 74 slit lamp exams, 34 Cataract Surgeries, 19 patients received one year supply of glaucoma drops. (3) Medical/GYN team, March 24 - April 4, 2023. Team of 39 consisting of MD's, NP's, RN's, Paramedic, Medical Students and interpreters. Totals: Medical clinics: 278 patients seen, 607 Rx's given. Women's Health 66 women seen, 49 pap smears 17 colposcopies, 12 biopsies and 1 LEEP. (4) April 15 - 20, 2023 Med Clinic follow-up, distribution of medications we ran out of previous mission and resupply clinic pharmaceuticals. Team of 4, Med clinics 61 patients seen , Rx's 108. (5) July 30 - August 7, 2023. Team of 14. Team consisted of MD's, NP's, Paramedics and intertreters. Medical Clinics 193 patients seen, 407 Rx's given. (6) November 3 - 14- 2023. Team of 7, team consisted of MD, NP's, and Paramedic. Totals: Medical clinics 116 patients seen, 301 Rx's given. (7) Donations were made to the Guadalupana's (an order of Catholic Nuns from Los Angeles) to buy food and supplies for the children of the school they hold for Haitian children ineligible to attend Dominican schools.
Western Kenya, Ikolomani District, State of Kakamega (1). Lymphatic Filariasis foot care and general wound care program, A trained wound care nurse conducts rotating clinics in eleven villages. Funding includes her salary, medication and wound care supplies. (2). Worming program for 1,100 children providing semi annual doses of Albendazole and Ivermectin. (3). Tuition assistance for 4 high school students. Tuition and room and board for 2 medical students from Western Kenya attending University of Nairobi.
Leogane Haiti Project. A program serving 31 children in the New Voice House of Life Orphanage providing nutrition, vitamins, parasite control, and school tuition. We are unable to send a medical or dental teams due to violence and the instability of Haiti.