September 16, 2010

Frist Global Health Leaders Touch over 5000 Lives This Summer

School has begun and autumn is here. We hope you had as wonderful a summer as we had here at Hope Through Healing Hands.

During the summer break, we had 7 Global Health Leaders travel to Peru, Honduras, Rwanda, Zambia, and Appalachia to promote health care through public health services and clinical care.

Photos: John Deason, Lipscomb College of Pharmacy, fills prescriptions in Namwianga, Zambia and Beth O'Connell, ETSU College of Public Health, teaches a dental hygiene class in Cygera, Rwanda.

In total, these students touched the lives of over 5000 people in villages around the world. They saw over 1800 patients, trained over 100 community health workers, educated over 2000 people on basic health such as dental hygiene, hand washing, and HIV/AIDS, and surveyed over 600 people to assess needs such as clean water and better family health care.

You can read all their blogs on our website:

Jennifer Hunt – Appalachia Region: Health Screenings for Migrant Workers

Beth O'Connell—Cygera, Rwanda: Over 1380 People Have Received Safe Water Education

John Deason—Namwianga, Zambia: The Mission Begins: Setting Up Clinics in Zambia

Please support our Global Health Leaders program so that we can continue to reach our goal of directly touching the lives of over 20,000 people around the world with health care in the next few years.

Regards,

Bill Frist, M.D. 

P.S. Follow Vanderbilt School of Nursing students Cody Bowers and Lauren Eppinger as they report in from the Primeros Pasos clinic, focusing on maternal health and newborn care, from Quetzaltenango, Guatemala this fall.