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International Medical Relief (IMR) clinics include three basic components: acute medical care, acute dental care, and community health education. Our teams consist of a variety of medical and non-medical volunteers, including medical providers, dentists and dental staff, PAs, NPs, nurses, EMS, non-medical personnel, and an IMR staff clinic director. The make-up of each team is unique and able to reach beyond borders in order to provide patients with sustainable healthcare.

Overall there is a great need for medical clinics across all borders. International Medical Relief (IMR) supports local health officials in order to provide primary and secondary health care services.

IMR medical clinics are multifaceted with multiple stations meant to provide the largest impact to the most number of patients for each area. IMR welcomes both medical and non-medical volunteers into our clinics. IMR collaborates with local health officials and the government in order to cater our medical clinics to meet the specific needs of the certain communities we are visiting. This allows IMR to provide more productive and effective health care. Our medical clinics serve as a bridge to build local and international relationships and provide a more sustainable way of care.

IMR clinics screen patients for acute and chronic illnesses, and while we might not be able to treat chronic illnesses, we can refer patients to local resources and provide patient education in managing these illnesses. Our clinics do not just see patients, but we ensure that all of our patients walk out of the clinics with a better understanding of their own health in order to improve the communities overall well-being.

  • Physician availability: Roughly 40% of WHO member states report having fewer than 1 physician per 1,000 people, with regions like Sub-Saharan Africa showing a significantly lower density of around 0.2 per 1,000 people. (World Economic Forum)
  • Nurses and Midwives: Globally, the availability of nurses and midwives stands at about 3.3 per 1,000 people, although in areas like Sub-Saharan Africa, this number falls to just 1.2 per 1,000 people. The shortage of these essential healthcare workers further exacerbates the strain on healthcare systems in underserved regions (World Health Organization)
  • Child mortality: In 2018, an estimated 6.2 million children and adolescents under the age of 15 died, primarily from preventable causes. 2021 data suggests that despite progress in certain areas, such as improved access to vaccinations, these preventable deaths remain a critical global health issue, especially in low-resource settings. (United Nations, World Health Organization)In 2018 an estimated 6.2 million children and adolescents under the age of 15 years died, mostly from preventable causes.
  • These statistics highlight ongoing global disparities in healthcare access, especially in regions with greater healthcare burdens like Sub-Saharan Africa.

Amazing...

Cory was a member on IMR’s Team Guatemala in 2019 where they provided much needed care in Aldea El Rosario, San Felipe, Jocotenango, Duenas, and Santa Cartarina.

“The fact that about 60 providers most of whom had never met and about 20 volunteers from Guatemala were able to come together as a team and work for a common goal and make it work so smoothly is such a great feeling…”
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Overview

IMR clinics treat patients using a variety of procedures, including wound care, respiratory and nebulizer treatments, dehydration treated with oral rehydration solutions and IVs, and more.

Each of our clinics has a basic laboratory that provides a variety of testing, including UA, Hgb, malaria, pregnancy, glucose, HIV, and more. Additionally on most trips we provided reading glasses to those in need, greatly expanding the local communities capability. Sustainable and appropriate education is a significant component of every IMR mobilization and every patient encounter, so we partner with local health officials and volunteers to conduct community education health classes. It is paramount to IMR that our impact extends well beyond the days that IMR is in our host country.

  • More than half of early child deaths are preventable or can be treated with simple, affordable interventions including immunization, adequate nutrition, safe water and food and appropriate care by a trained health provider when needed
  • Hypertension affects 1.3 billion people worldwide yet only 1 in 5 people with hypertension are correctly managing their hypertension
  • 2.2 billion people have some type of vision impairment and of those 1 billion have preventable vision impairments that are yet to be addressed

Medical & Dental Clinics Operated in 46 Countries

Argentina
Armenia
Bahamas
Bolivia
Brazil
Cambodia
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Eritrea

Ethiopia
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
India
Indonesia
Kenya
Laos
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritania

Moldova
Mozambique
Myanmar/Burma
Nepal
Nicaragua
Panama
Peru
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Romania
Rwanda
Senegal

Somaliland
South Africa
Tanzania
Thailand
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
United States
Vietnam
Zambia

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You’ve never really lived until you’ve done something for someone who can never repay you.Sometimes it can be something as small as paying ahead for someone’s coffee, when they could be having a bad morning. Or it could be something as far out in left field as a medical service trip to a place that is so poverty-ridden, that this may be the only healthcare they receive for who knows how long. Until next year? Until the next clinic comes into town? On June 3rd, 2017, myself along with 50 other people (who didn’t know each other) set out to

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We had been getting close, and on our trip to Guatemala, it happened. We treated our 250,000th patient! The moment was tremendous and the team cried for happiness. Our patient was Alfredo. He is disabled and his mother has cared for him all of his 35 years. When he was born, she was told to leave him somewhere off of the side of the road, but she refused. Their community helps them and everybody pitches in. Alfredo can’t speak or write, but he had tears in his eyes as we commemorated him as our 250,000th patient. He came to us

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Guatemala, Jun 29-Jul 6, 2019

Amazing….. That’s such a simple word but after spending this past week on my first international trip it is the perfect word. I have spent the last week in what is (in my opinion) the most beautiful place in the world, the sights, sounds, smells, people, and feelings in Guatemala are absolutely incredible. I did not know what to expect going into an unknown country and an unknown experience, I just know I wanted to hopefully make an impact on some lives that may possibly be less fortunate than mine. When we arrived we were greeted with open arms and

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