Alexandra Trevino

Crown Point, Indiana

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Indiana Med/Dent and Public Health May 2014 Ghana



Alexandra's Message

Hey guys!
In May I have an awesome opportunity to venture to Ghana on a Medical/Dental/Public Health Brigade. This trip not only benefits me, but it also benefits the members of the Ghanian community. If you do decided to donate click the donate button to the right and it will take you to a page where you will select my name and enter the amount of money you would like to donate! Thank you so much for all your help!

Volunteer Activity Description

Medical Brigades at Indiana University is a discipline of Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The Indiana University chapter systematically works with more than 350 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran, Panamanian, and Ghanaian community members annually.

Volunteers on the Medical and Dental Brigades will be working closely together to provide quality health initiatives to a community that otherwise has limited access to health care. Volunteers will spend three days in a community in order to optimize the amount of time patients are able to spend with the physicians and dentists. Each patient will receive a physician consultation, teeth cleaning and a fluoride treatment as well as have access to pap smears, prostate exams and restorative dental care as necessary. Volunteers will have the opportunity to take patient vitals, obtain patient history and current symptoms, shadow and assist licensed physicians and dentists, participate in preventative education, and fill prescriptions under a licensed pharmacist. Volunteers will become familiar with the prevalent health issues in their community and learn about how to prevent and treat those illnesses. These brigades provide each volunteer with the opportunity to make a tangible impact on a specific community while gaining real life experience in the field of international medicine and dentistry.

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