Surgeons from Little Rock return from treating patients in Guatemala

Little Rock, Arkansas – This week, a group of medical professionals who had been operating in Guatemala returned.

A group of eighteen people, three of whom were surgeons, loaded their suitcases with supplies for medicine and spent a week in Guatemala. After four days and 61 procedures, they have returned.

Surgeon John Jones remarked, “I think some of those would have to travel two or three hours.” “There was no other way for some people to receive medical care, so they would walk to the hospital.”

The surgeons were sponsored by Pulaski Heights Methodist Church in Little Rock so they might travel to another nation and make a difference in people’s lives.

Team leader Denise Johnson is one of them. According to her, she begins organizing and coordinating donations from medical facilities such as St. Vincents as early as February to ensure that they have all they require when they arrive. They then established themselves in a private hospital, collaborating with Salud y Paz, a nonprofit.

She claimed that the list of individuals in need of care is what draws them back each year.

“I wonder what if this is our last year every year. “And then I look around, and these people don’t have access to surgical care,” Johson remarked. “If we can help it, we won’t put anyone on a list.”