Medical brigade 2025

This year’s medical brigade lasted two weeks, providing care to a total of over 1800 adult patients and almost 900 children in a total of ten mainly remote rural communities in the municipalities of Estelí, La Trinidad, San Nicolás and Condega. The brigade had many components including providers of psycho-social care. The medical part of the brigade consisted of nine medical professionals from the United States (five pediatricians, one family medicine doctor, two internal medicine doctors and one nurse) as well as three local Nicaraguan general medicine practitioners accompanied by a total of six medical students over the two weeks. The brigade was accompanied every day by part of the team from our program addressing domestic violence and related problems. A group from Boston University’s Faculty of Social Work accompanied the brigade for two days as well as spending two days working on the final workshops of training courses in the local campus of Nicaragua’s National Autonomous University and one day in a workshop to finish a training course for nurses in La Trinidad and San Nicolás The brigade was fortunate to get excellent support with transport from three experienced drivers and also language support from four interpreters. We are very grateful to all the participants in the brigade and everyone who made it possible,especially all our friends at Dot House Health in Boston and Dr. Peter Loewinthan who started this program of medical brigades from Dot House Health in 1999.