Danita’s Children medical center hosted a medical team from Melbourne, Florida that was able to see 1,170 patients in 5 days!
In our community, quality medical care is lacking and the cost is often unattainable by the already struggling families who live here. Many people simply go without treatment if they are sick or injured. This team was a huge blessing by providing free care to so many people who desperately needed medical treatment! Medical teams bring valuable knowledge, skills, resources, and manpower to see more people healed. The teams and our full time staff always learn a lot from one another.
The team worked a few days inside our medical clinic and also had the opportunity to visit a few local villages. Going out into the village allows teams to assess people in rural areas who may still need medical attention but lack transportation to get to our facility. Visiting the villages allows visitors to see how many people live in the rural areas. They see the realities of what daily life looks like for many people who lack basic resources. They also have an opportunity to see the lack of medical clinics in those remote areas.
Our medical director, Linzi Sousa, said it is only by God’s grace that the clinic days were as successful as they were, “With 7 providers and this amount of patients, on average each provider saw about 43 patients. Those numbers are just almost impossible…but not with Jesus! It was supernatural. Only God could have provided time, energy, knowledge, and strength to see that quantity of patients in one day.”
The team assessed patients, provided treatment plans, performed x-rays, placed casts on broken bones, gave a pediatric walker to a little girl, and showed the love of Jesus to the sick.
