The goal of every medical mission is to provide optimal care to underserved women and their families as well as provide support for the health professionals in these underserved countries.
Our unique and successful medical mission strategy is to provide safe medical and surgical care for our patients around the world as well as building long-term sustainable solutions.
We mobilize medical professionals across the United States to treat underserved women and their families who lack access to basic health care. We are most proud of the legacy we leave after each mission of trained medical staff, surgical equipment and professional partnership to help carry on the work after our mission team has left.
On a typical mission, a team of up to 30 medical professionals (anesthesiologists, anesthetist, nurses, pediatricians, internists, gastroenterologists, cardiologists, OB/GYN, perinatologists, gynecology oncologists, urogynecologists, urologists, surgical oncologists, general surgeons, psychologists, students and community volunteeers) from the United Stated travel to a partner country to treat underserved women and their families for a two-week period. Our teams are organized with both in-country and international volunteers and include liaisons, mission coordinators and junior volunteers.
What Is A Mission?
As a nonprofit organization,IHCV provide healthcare to underserved women and their families, our medical missions allow us to deliver safe medical and surgical care in developing countries where these life saving services may not be available.
We combine the talents of medical volunteers with the best practices in medical and surgical care to meet two goals: to provide live saving and safe health care while creating self-sufficient, long-term healthcare solutions.
During our medical missions, a team of highly trained medical professionals and volunteers travels to Ghana our partnering country to treat underserved women and their families during a two-week period.
On a typical medical mission, 1000 - 1,500 women and their families receive medical evaluations and 50 - 70 are surgically treated. We also use the opportunity to train and learn from in-country medical professionals, based on the needs of their health care workers or the facility where the mission takes place.
Thanks to the generous support of our donors, we are able to provide care to more underserved women and their families each year.
