August 2011 Dalhousie Medical Brigade - Ghana

Start Date: Aug 21, 2011 10:00 PM
End Date: Oct 31, 2011 10:00 PM

Dalhousie Medical Brigades is a chapter of Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. The Dalhousie chapter systematically works with more than 300 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran, Ghanaian and Panamanian community members annually. Dalhousie GMB belongs to the Global Medical Brigades program within Global Brigades. Global Medical Brigades develops sustainable health initiatives and provides relief where there is limited access to healthcare. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are treated and volunteers deliver public health workshops.