Sachin Thackeray

New Paltz, NY

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I am truly passionate about medicine and wish to become a general thoracic surgeon in the future. Ultimately, my goal of becoming a surgeon is driven by my unfettering curiosity for knowledge and my willingness to help others in need. I hope to travel to Honduras so that I may be able to experience a country where medicine is not ubiquitous and see the problems associated with the lack of proper health care.

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Website: http://globalbrigades.org


Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Medical Brigades

About Us

SUNY New Paltz is a chapter of Global Medical Brigades, an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. We work in remote, rural, and under resourced communities in Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and Ghana who would otherwise have limited to no access to health care. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are provided access to healthcare and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends. nnIn conjunction with our Medical Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with economic development, sanitation and clean water projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.