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Go On a Medical Mission Trip with International Medical Relief
International Medical Relief offers short term medical mission trips for volunteer doctors, dentists, medical and non-medical professionals. We provide medical relief in areas where health care is limited or difficult to obtain and in disaster areas. Join us on a trip!
International Medical Relief promotes the well-being of underdeveloped communities through a comprehensive continuum of services provided on medical mission trips. International Medical Relief trips contribute to the world’s communities by improving the overall health, wellness and medical relief of the people. On these 10 to 14 day medical mission trips, we provide diagnosis and treatment, establish partnerships with local medical relief designees, conduct community medical and wellness training, and foster principles of preventative health care. With our medical mission team, support staff, and the health care supplies and medicines we bring on each medical mission trip, we see hundreds of patients each clinic day.
International Medical Relief provides medical mission trips for general medical care, dental care, as well as several types of medical care specialties including plastic surgeons, general surgeons, oral surgeons, orthopedic surgeons and ophthalmic surgeons. Surgical trips are designed in specific locations that have the infrastructure to accommodate volunteer surgical teams. Non-medical volunteers act as support staff and are an integral part of each team
Mission
of International Medical Relief
To provide access to medical care in underserved and vulnerable communities around the world to improve the health, wellness, medical relief and quality of life of those populations most in need. This is done through short term medical mission trips where volunteers give their time and services for the medical relief of the developing world.
Summary of International Medical Relief & Medical Mission Trips
International Medical Relief is a nonprofit organization that provides medical relief and care to under-served and vulnerable people around the world. International Medical Relief was founded on the belief that knowledge of basic health facts and access to medical relief and care should be shared by all nations, regions, and classes. Our work includes some of the millions of people who have been excluded from healthcare systems worldwide.
Through partnerships with our medical professionals and the entire international host community a valuable sharing of knowledge occurs on each trip. This empowers the local people to provide for their own health and for each other. Our goal is to establish long term relationships that allow us to revisit each village multiple times over several years until the community can maintain its medical status independently. On medical mission trips volunteers experience and share in a new culture. Each visit brings progress and success in community wellness allowing succeeding medical mission trips to provide more technical care. We start with basic prevention and build toward surgical care.