Medical Missions

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The FOLPMI undertakes medical-surgical-dental missions in the most remote and poverty-stricken areas of the country, providing free clinics, food, and nutrition education activities. The program attracts successful, highly paid doctors and nurses into volunteering their services, which requires them to travel to depressed communities and perform nonstop consultation and surgery in makeshift facilities for indigent patients.

A typical medical mission includes about 23 surgeons, 2 dentists, 5 anesthesiologiest, and six nurses. The team conducts marathon consultations and surgeries, with little time off for rest and sleep. For many of the patients, the medical missions provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be cured. Without the missions, these individuals would have to live their lives suffering from their illnesses.

The majority of the funds raised by St. Charles Borromeo Philippine Medical Mission have funded medical missions sponsored by FOLPMI.