Recently, Medical Brigades volunteers from the University of Washington had a very successful 83 participant Brigade who over the course of four days visited three communities in Eastern Panama. Volunteers were divided into two medical teams and a dental team and were
able to treat over 300 patients on their longest day! On the fifth day of the Brigade, volunteers divided into even smaller groups and were invited into the homes of the Embera indigenous community of Arimae where they conversed with the families to identify root causes to the health issues they had witnessed all week long, based on lifestyle and living conditions.
Medical Brigades volunteers from Samuel Merritt also recently saw the successful implementation of a modified microscope, which was modified to run on batteries for increased mobility on the Brigade. Volunteers were able to set up a private room to examine cell cultures to help identify some of the medical issues women in the indigenous Kuna community of Ipeti Kuna were concerned with.
