Medical Teams
These trips are  in need of your support. If you are able and interested, please donate over-the-counter medications: vitamins (especially children's and pre-natal), pain relievers (ibuprofen, tylenol), cough medicine for all ages, etc. 
 

February 26-March 6, 2008 (this trip is need of one more person) 
Contact: Guy Miller  if you are interested in this trip
and for drop-off sites

Dr. Dan Robinson writes:

          A very warm thank you to all who so generously give our mission teams your prayers, financial support, and medications to fulfill our calling in Honduras.

          As one member of the February 1007 Medical Team providing medical care for the poor of Honduras, I was blessed to deal with an abundance of supplies to treat those attending our clinics. It was a struggle to put everything together especially with a blizzard on our packing day that didn't allow us to meet and organize our supplies. Some packing was done in vehicles on the way to the Minneapolis airport, as well as at the airport. With no time to organize supplies before leaving, we didn't have to go far to find something to do the first couple nights we were in Honduras. Packaging medications became a group adventure as, for example, we counted and repackaged 30,000 ibuprofen into 60 and 90 count bags! (photo at left)

          We were able to care for just under 1,200 individuals during our five clinic days. Three clinics were at Mt. Horeb in the bakery building, one at a tiny clinic in La Ermita and one at a site in a poor part of Tegucigulpa (the capital of Honduras). This year I was struck by the number of children we saw that were brought in by sisters, aunts, or grandmothers. After reading "Enrique's Journey," which is about a teenage boy's trip to find his mother in the U.S. (she had left 11 years earlier to find work because that was the only way she could provide for him), one could only wonder about the situation of these children. It made the book a little more real to me compared to my previous experiences.  (Dr. Dan Robinson is pictured below inside the clinic).     

          My hope is that you will keep the mission and ministry to Honduras in your prayers. That is one of the many ways you may help those involved with these efforts to improve the living conditions for the poor in Honduras. We want to establish medical teams that will travel to Honduras every three or four months. The next Medical Team trip is February 26-March 6, 2008.  
 
         In order to defer the cost of medications, we ask your help in providing over-the-counter medications. We want to stock pile analgesics (especially acetaminophen and ibuprofen), decongestants, cough medications and vitamins for men, women (especially prenatal), children and infants. Distributing prenatal vitamins is one way we may be able to combat the number of children born with hydrocephalus in Honduras. We visited a hospital that had two wards full of such children and it is easily preventable with prenatal vitamins.

           If you'd like more information, please contact me: Dr. Dan Robinson <drobinson@slhduluth.com>.  I am available to come to your church to give a presentation. Another contact for information regarding our NE MN Synod medical mission to Honduras is Pastor Michael Wittkamper mwittka1@gmail.com

Pictured below are the clinic at La Ermita (left) and people waiting to be seen (right)