Field Blogs

At the medical sites in El Salvador, women present with a myriad of problems from ovarian or breast cysts, uterine fibroids and infertility problems to general health issues such as headaches, stomach pains and hypothyroid.

Armando's boss and friend, drove him six hours across the Guatemalan border to arrive for the first surgical screening day in El Salvador.

Faye Pyles, a seasoned HOPE volunteer nurse and Chief Nursing Officer on the mission offered a lesson in adaptability and improvising.

Earlier this summer, 21 Project HOPE volunteers provided medical care and health education in El Salvador. Read their stories.

After a quick morning breakfast, we headed for the cath lab where there was already a crowd of patients lined up on stretchers awaiting our arrival.

Cardiologist, Dr. Frank Ing participated in the Vietnam Interventional Cardiology humanitarian mission in August. Read his diary.

After traveling 300 miles back from our out-to-sea excursion, and anchoring in Port-au-Prince during the pre-dawn hours, the excitement to get back to work seemed palpable.

Motivated by Haiti’s need for help and inspired by her patients’ incredible acts of kindness in Haiti, volunteer, Kerry Quealy tells her story.

While preparations for work in Guatemala take place ashore, onboard the USNS Comfort, many of the volunteers presented health care education seminars.

The nursing students at Delta State showed us equipment donated by Project HOPE’s partners, a hospital bed and a Ventriloscope, now being used in the simulation lab.

Governor Barbour encouraged Project HOPE to work with the Delta Health Alliance (DHA) to help further improve health in the Mississippi Delta.

Project HOPE has donated nearly $70,000 worth of medicines and medical supplies and equipment to the DHA and their health care programs.