With nine team members crushed into the backseat like a clown car, the van bursting with medical supplies and cryotherapy machines needed to set up two “See and Treat” clinics, the CCC team headed north on their 6-hour journey to Coban. There were lots of bumps in the road, but we arrived safety in the...
The first challenge CureCervicalCancer.org (CCC) faces in launching any new effort to bring “See and Treat” (for premalignant cervical cancer) to a developing country is getting its staff and equipment to the site. Stage One is bringing all the equipment (including multiple large cryotherapy units) to be used, and ultimately donated, through Customs, in this...
Occasionally, supporters of CCC comment that they would like to “breeze off” with us to one of our destinations, say, Guatemala, or Kenya, or Haiti. The fact is that getting to our work sites is no “breeze.” When CCC goes overseas, we have already accomplished a huge set of tasks since we must travel with...
CCC was honored by an invitation to speak at the National Ethiopian Cancer Conference in August, 2013. Because CCC’s Director, Dr. Patricia Gordon, could not attend, CCC was delighted to be represented by Dr. Samson Mulugeta of Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle, Ethiopia, who was instrumental in setting up the CCC See and Treat Clinic...
Indigenous Mayans and their Health Practices Using western medicine to treat indigenous people presents challenges in overcoming cultural differences and communicating. When CCC works in Coban, Guatemala at the end of September, it needs some grounding in ways traditional Mayans confront illness and health and their views on the sources of illness and methods to...
Coban, Guatemala is not a prime tourist destination; rather, surrounded by mountains and located at 4330 feet, it is a coffee-growing region. The fourth largest city in Guatemala, Coban, about 4-5 hours drive (219 kilometers) from the capital, has a population of around 100,000 people. The local people are predominantly Q’eqchi, a group that represents...
The CCC team decided to take a short break today to design the donor clinic signs for our future projects and explore the different ways we could frame these signs. We give our most generous donors the opportunity to dedicate a clinic of their choice, and the picture above is an example. These anonymous donors...
The Cure Cervical Cancer team is excited for our next project in Guatemala, and we are busily getting ready! We’re currently organizing all our supplies: a 200-pound shipment arrived last week, and we’ve been unpacking ever since. In association with Asociacion Companero Para Cirugia, we will establish two ongoing, sustainable “See and Treat” clinics for...
Our friends at Ayder Hospital sent us the above photo of the sign they created for the dedicated See and Treat clinic for cervical cancer. The dedication “For Our Mothers and Sisters” is a permanent hallmark emblem that we have established an ongoing sustainable clinic for cervical cancer in Ethiopia. The clinic will screen and...
We arrived in Heathrow Airport, London to turn on our cell phones and discover what is perhaps the single most gratifying moment of our professional lives. Tsehay, One of the nurses trained by Cure Cervical Cancer and left in charge of continuing the clinic sent out an update on their statistics from Friday afternoon, after...
