The Jaén NGO Quesada Solidaria develops a new health aid expedition in Guatemala

JAEN, Sept. 10 (EUROPA PRESS) -

From this Saturday until next September 24, the non-governmental organization (NGO) from Jaén, Quesada Solidaria, is carrying out a new health aid expedition in Guatemala, where it will provide both primary care and specialist care, also carrying out surgical interventions.

On this occasion, 60 health professionals will participate, "the largest group" of those who have traveled to the aforementioned country so far, as the president of the entity, Basilio Dueñas, has informed Europa Press.

Their work will make possible, specifically, the twentieth surgical project at the Obras Sociales Hermano Pedro Hospital, in Antigua; the fourteenth surgical project at Hospital Corpus Christi, in Patzún; and the third for primary care at the Quesada health center (Jutiapa).

The health professionals, 45 women and 15 men, come from 14 autonomous communities and one province. In their suitcases they also carry 1,600 kilos of medication and consumables to carry out their work in the aforementioned Guatemalan areas.

Dueñas explained that in Antigua there will be a surgical team made up of surgeons, gynecologists, urologists, otolaryngologists, neurosurgeons, vascular surgeons, pediatric surgeons, anesthetists and nurses.

"They travel to carry out preoperative evaluation of patients, surgical interventions and their postoperative control at the Hospital Obras Sociales del Hermano Pedro, covering the specialties of general surgery, urology, gynecology, otolaryngology, vascular surgery, neurosurgery and pediatric surgery with a total of eight operating rooms. ", he detailed. There will also be anesthetists and nurses in the post-anesthesia resuscitation unit (PACU) room in the bedding area.

For its part, in Patzún the NGO will be present with a surgical team, with general and vascular surgeons, anesthetists and nurses to also carry out patient assessment, interventions and postoperative control at the Corpus Christi Hospital.

As for Quesada (Jutiapa), the transfer of four primary care doctors, two pediatricians, a dermatologist, a general surgeon, a radiologist and a nurse is planned to this village, where the NGO has a health center that serves the population and the 27 surrounding villages.

The president of Quesada Solidaria has indicated that his work will consist of providing consultation, both at the health center and in the villages, in addition to monitoring the work of the two Guatemalan doctors that the entity has hired there all year round.

Likewise, these professionals will analyze the diabetes project with insulin donation and the early detection of cervical cancer in women and will provide health training courses to village leaders and the population.

"Minor outpatient surgery, ultrasound, and dermatology and pediatric consultation will also be performed. We also transferred a batch of more basic medications to serve the community pharmacy that we have in this center," he commented.

Regarding the interventions, Dueñas has pointed out that the most frequent are gallbladder, hernias, varicose veins, ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids, prostate, anal fistulas or kidney stones, in addition to processes with local anesthesia.

An assistance, like all the work carried out by the volunteers of the expedition, for which coordination with the structure that the NGO has in Guatemala and with those responsible for the local centers is very important.

This facilitates the care they carry out over long hours. Despite this, the president of Quesada Solidaria has expressed the satisfaction that comes with humanitarian work like this, which allows the quality of life of the inhabitants of this area of ​​Central America to improve. Likewise, he has thanked the support of the people and entities that collaborate to make it possible.