When: Oct 16 - 24, 2010

 

Where: Cancun, Mexico

 

Who: Ophthalmology Surgical Team - Anesthesiologists, Ophthalmologists, Optometrists, Ophthalmology Techs, Scrub Nurses, PAR Nurses and Circulating Nurses, Logistics (non-medical helpers) 1 - 2 Pastors (to take an active part in the Spiritual aspect of the team and work with the National Partners/Spiritual Counseling)

 

Status: Accepting applications

 

Special Travel Announcement: All participants must travel to/from Mexico as a group. No deviations in travel will be allowed without prior approval from GHO Director.

 

Project Fee: $1350 + international airfare (subject to change)

 

Team Leader: Donald Thompson, MD

 

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Trip Details: In the center of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula is the beautiful 16th century colonial city of Valladolid. With a population of 50,000, Valladolid is a relatively modern city, surrounded by Mayan Indian villages with some of Mexico’s neediest and underserved people. It is to these people that our team will seek to minister and offer much needed cataract surgery – but more importantly, we will share with them the message of God’s love! Living in one room pole huts with thatch roofs, no plumbing, in adjunct poverty with little hope for improvement, these families, while most needy, are among the most appreciative to those who come and offer help.

 

Our team will arrive on Saturday afternoon in Cancun, Mexico and travel 2-3 hours to Valladolid, where we will stay in air-conditioned hotel rooms with private baths. Sunday morning we get up and have devotion and worship after breakfast. At this time we will take a short trip to the hospital and start preparing for Monday morning. The doctors and helpers will screen patients while other members of the team can be working in the O.R. The next four days will be spent doing cataract surgery, followed by checking the patients on Friday. We will be joined by Roberto Rodriquez, M.D. (surgeon and former CMDA President Mexico) along with translators and local pastors. The patients will be followed by local Optometrists when we leave, there is no local Ophthalmologists.

 

Friday afternoon we will travel back to Cancun, where we will spend the next two days at the Marriott Casa Grande Hotel in Cancun. The final portion of the trip will allow one to rest and relax. There have been special rates made available for those needing to stay longer.

 

 

Vaccination Information: Wondering what immunizations you’ll need for the mission trip? Please refer to the Centers for Disease Control website.

 

To apply for this trip, Click Here.

 

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