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As part of our Church-planting strategy, to help open hearts to Jesus, each year our Belize Medical Mission Teams treat thousands of poor, needy patients in our jungle Medical clinics. Most of our patients live in leaf and stick huts, with mud floors, in grinding poverty with very little food or clothing. Our Belize Medical Director, Amanda, is the Medical Provider who leads these Teams of Doctors, which volunteer from the U.S. on weeklong trips to Belize. It’s rewarding to save so many lives, but there are often children and adults that we can’t help, and that breaks her heart. One such patient was Xiomara. Xiomara lives in a leaf and stick hut, with a mud floor, with no electricity or running water, her family is desperately poor. In June 2008, Amanda discovered that Xiomara had a serious heart murmur, and that she would die if she didn’t get heart surgery. But there are no heart surgeons in the country of Belize, nor a competent medical facility to perform such a difficult life-saving procedure. Xiomara’s case seemed hopeless, she was going to die and there wasn’t anything we could do to help her in our jungle Medical Clinic. So, for 6 months, Amanda called hospitals in the US until she located a hospital in Tampa, FL, that ended up flying Xiomara to Tampa and performing the surgery for free, saving this precious child’s life. Thank you for giving to provide essential, life-saving Medications for our Belize Medical Mission Clinics, and for helping us save the lives of precious children like Xiomara. Click to GIVE a gift for life-saving Medicine, to help save the life of a precious child like Xiomara. |
