Category: Projects

  • Maneadero, Mexico: Medical Outreach and possible Startup Clinic

    Maneadero, Mexico: Medical Outreach and possible Startup Clinic

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    VGHP is partnering with Dr. Carlos O’Bryan, a 2011 graduate of the Ventura Family Medicine Residency, to assess needs in providing care to underserved peoples in Maneadero, Mexico. Maneadero is an agricultural community five miles South of Ensenada in Baja California. There is a strong migrant farm worker population, many of them Mixteco people from…

  • Santo Tomas La Union, Guatemala: Clinica Medica Cristiana

    Santo Tomas La Union, Guatemala: Clinica Medica Cristiana

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    VGHP is partnering with Dr. Zachary Self, a 2012 graduate of the Ventura Family Medicine Residency, to support his startup Clinica Medica Cristiana in Santo Tomas La Union, Guatemala. Santo Tomas is a city of 25,000 residents, mainly indigenous Mayan, with four satellite towns of 5,000 residents each. Dr. Self’s goal is to “live out…

  • Moundou, Chad: Moundou Adventist Hospital

    Moundou, Chad: Moundou Adventist Hospital

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    VGHP is partnering with Dr. James Appel, a 2003 graduate of the Ventura Family Medicine Residency, to provide specialist care in Moundou, Chad. Moundou is the second largest city in Chad with a population of over 500,000 including hinterlands. There are less than 20 doctors in Moundou (compared to 679 doctors in the city of…