The story of CCC’s “See and Treat” clinics in Vietnam began with a woman who saw a need. That woman was Dr. Gordon, who visited a hospital in Ha Long town several years ago and saw that there were hundreds of women who did not have access to basic preventative screening for cervical cancer. Dr....
CCC is back in the north coastal region of Vietnam. Watch this one-minute video to see what we were up to on our first day in clinic. Enjoy our photo story stay tuned for more! CCC is excited to share their work with the world. And don’t forget to subscribe to our channel!
After months of careful program coordination and a solid 29 hours of a 7,649-mile voyage, CCC has arrived in Vietnam, at last! We are excited to see our friends here in the northeast region of Vietnam, and we are ready to roll! (Dr. Gordon reuniting with Vu, our wonderful ground partner who does everything in...
From day one, the CureCervicalCancer team could already tell we were going to be leaving behind these two “clinics in a suitcase” in good hands. As soon as the clinic doors opened shortly after our training lecture, all 15 trainees quickly familiarized themselves with the new equipment and mobilized the hundreds of patients in an...
Authored by: David Bruss The scene inside the Mong Cai Women’s Health Clinic is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Thirty people are jammed pack inside two small exam rooms, with about a dozen nurses and staff helping orchestrate a grand production. There are five exam tables and multiple patients lined up at each station...
We arrive at the clinic at 730 and a huge crowd of patients are waiting. The trainees came in early and set up each station perfectly and started screening the moment we arrived. A large group of patients came from Vinh Trung Island and Vinh Thuu Island; these islands two hours away by boat. There...
CCC is happy to report that we are back in Vietnam. As you may remember, CCC has visited Vietnam twice before, establishing clinics in Quang Ninh, Cam Pha, Hoanh Bo, Uong Bi, and Dong Trieu. This time, we will be establishing two clinics, the first in Mong Cai, just a few minutes walk from the...
To revisit the three CCC clinics opened last May was to witness the lasting impact that the program has made. When we entered the main clinic in Quang Ninh at the Major Reproductive Center, each doctor and nurse we had worked with squealed with delight in recognition of our faces and visa versa. There were...
This week has been an extremely eventful and productive one for the CCC team in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, one of the largest and most isolated provinces in the country. In just this short period of time, we resupplied our existing three clinics including the Angel Clinic at the Quang Ninh Center for Reproductive Health Care,...
One of the most beautiful things about working at the CureCervicalCancer clinics, is the wonderful stories we hear on a daily basis. Today, we had the opportunity to hear one such story from a women named Thuy, a 30 year old rice farmer from rural Vietnam (pictured above with Board Member and Director of Volunteers,...
