I don’t often pause to reflect on how truly lucky I am. CureCervicalCancer has grown in just these few short years to reach 67 clinics in 7 countries. Today on our return visit to China, I was humbled to be reminded of the 45 doctors we’d previously trained about a year and a half ago....
Just around the corner on November 12th, Dr. Patricia Gordon and the CCC team will return to rural China to educate local healthcare professionals in a four-stop mission. This mission will train healthcare professionals in the art of the “See and Treat” method. This method will be implemented in hospitals all across China in order...
On Friday June 10th, CCC graduated 10 new “See and Treat” healthcare providers from surrounding hopsitals in Mwanza and Dr. Mbise of Arusha. The day started like any other day, with patients arriving and waiting as early as the crack of dawn. The women quickly formed a line to begin the registration process. Mothers waited...
Our second full day of screening at Buzuruga was a smashing success. Word of mouth travels fast here, and today three times as many women as yesterday showed up for screening. To see over a hundred women, plus dozens of babies and children, fill the waiting room was a beautiful sight. Their traditional, rainbow-colored dresses...
Today (Friday) is our last clinic day of our 2016 Guatemala Program, and it has been such an honor to work with the amazing WINGS and ACPC teams this past week! This morning, the CCC team held a graduation ceremony for our five newly-certified “See and Treat” trainees at WINGS. Their performance this week was...
I heard about Cure Cervical Cancer 3 years ago, when my close friend Dr. Erica Oberman signed up to attend a mission in Guatemala. She came back with stories of beautiful women in their traditional clothing who would come from miles away to be seen and treated, and of kind nurses who would work in...
As a doctor I often wonder what exactly my patients hear when I give them an unexpected diagnosis. Did they understand what is going on? Were they comfortable enough to ask me questions? Are they okay with their plan of care? As you can imagine, when I participate in a medical mission, in a foreign...
For the next three days, the CCC team will split into two groups to cover more ground in and around the Alta Verapaz region. The team led by Dr. Erica Oberman (OB/GYN) headed to a treatment center on the outskirts of Coban in a region called La Esfuerza. Upon arriving to the clinic, we were...
Today marked the last clinic visit for our Haiti revisit and re-education program. CCC intern Leila Hariri and our wonderful ground partner Nurse Marie Ann Durosier had a wonderful experience at Dr. Jean Pierre Romel’s medical clinic, Centre de Reflection et d’Action Sur Les Problems Socialize (CRAPS) in Limonade. Dr. Romel and Nurse Cassandra Guerine...
Day four of our revisit and resupply Haiti program was another true success. The team split into three groups again in order to visit our see and treat centers at the Hosptial of the Baptist Convention of Haiti and Mont Organise, while Dr. Jennifer Lang attended a meeting with the Director of Health for the...
