Africa Christian Medical Missions, Inc http://acmmi.org Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:19:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 An Expected End http://acmmi.org/an-expected-end/ http://acmmi.org/an-expected-end/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:15:58 +0000 admin http://acmmi.org/?p=97 December is a time of the year for reflections, transitions, and expectations. We take time to reflect on the year just past, transition into the new and have great expectations for the New Year. It is bewildering how quickly the year seems to have gone by. In 2011 we witnessed the so-called Arab Spring mushrooming into a geopolitical force reshaping nations and leaders in that part of the world. In the United States, movements like the “Tea Party” and “Occupy Wall Street” brought about rethinking and realignment, in politics.

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]]> http://acmmi.org/an-expected-end/feed/ Ethiopia Medical Mission– An Eye-Opening Experience http://acmmi.org/ethiopia-medical-mission%e2%80%93-an-eye-opening-experience/ http://acmmi.org/ethiopia-medical-mission%e2%80%93-an-eye-opening-experience/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:13:33 +0000 admin http://acmmi.org/?p=94 It is not very often that people get the opportunity to visit the land of their ancestors. It has always been my desire to visit the continent of Africa but never thought it would be possible. In October 2011, this desire became a reality.

After much prayer and submission to the Lord, I took on the challenge by joining ACMMI team of highly dedicated and skilled professionals on a medical mission trip to Ethiopia. As a health care provider residing in a developed country, I have become content in my comfort zone and took such affluent lifestyle for granted

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]]> http://acmmi.org/ethiopia-medical-mission%e2%80%93-an-eye-opening-experience/feed/ Keeping The Promise! http://acmmi.org/keeping-the-promise-by-g-glaanader-md/ http://acmmi.org/keeping-the-promise-by-g-glaanader-md/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:43:02 +0000 admin http://acmmi.org/?p=59 Anyone ever made a promise to you that they failed to keep? Most adults will readily answer this simple question in the affirmative. As children, we can each recall at least one instance where our parents or siblings failed to keep a promise they made to us.”

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]]> http://acmmi.org/keeping-the-promise-by-g-glaanader-md/feed/ ACMMI Zambia Mission 2009 - Report http://acmmi.org/st-news-by-waltona-cummings-rn-cmn/ http://acmmi.org/st-news-by-waltona-cummings-rn-cmn/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:10:45 +0000 admin http://acmmi.org/?p=19 The predominant health problems were of infectious etiologies (protozoan, bacterial, and fungal) and attributable to poor hygiene and lack of good quality drinking water. Common complaints were diarrhea, fever and skin rash in the children. Most adults complained of musculoskeletal pain and fever.

Our health professionals, 3 doctors, 4 nurses, and a nurse midwife treated malaria, hypertension, anemia, infectious diseases and taught health education, antenatal care, family planning and personal hygiene including serving at the local hospital. In one of the villages there was not even a traditional birth attendant (TBA) which may help explain the high infant mortality in this region.

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]]> http://acmmi.org/st-news-by-waltona-cummings-rn-cmn/feed/ Medical Missionary Work Calling by Kyron C. Tamar, MD, FACS http://acmmi.org/hello-world/ http://acmmi.org/hello-world/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:08:37 +0000 admin http://acmmi.org/?p=1 hernias! We set up three O.R. tables in one room…just like in the T.V. show, “M.A.S.H.” What an experience! We had no choice but to make it work, both for us and the patients! This was their only opportunity for free healthcare…any care!

The next site was at Terabor General Hospital in Gokana LGA, Rivers State, a community of about 400,000 people in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria where Dr. Gbaanador was born and raised. There, we joined a group of 45 Nigerian healthcare professionals and volunteers from Pro-Health International (www.prohealthinternational.org)…a faith-based NGO that provides year-round free health care throughout Nigeria and neighboring countries. They travel to rural areas, bringing everything needed to provide medical, surgical, ophthalmologic, dental care and counseling to the poor and needy. They bring everything needed (dental chairs, OR tables, mobile Lab, equipment, medical/surgical supplies and pharmaceuticals along with two generators in the trucks. On the first day it took about three hours just to unpack and set up everything and about the same to break-down, pack, and reload at the end of the five-day project. At Terabor we performed surgery on 90 patients (not counting the dental and ophthalmic operations) in five days! At the completion of the medical mission we were very tired, very gratified and felt fulfilled. We barely scratched the surface of the healthcare needs this community…but we certainly made a difference in the lives of the ones we were able to serve, free of charge. 

I returned to America with a renewed commitment to medical missionary work. I will return to Uganda in 2008 with Dr. Daniel. I plan to work with ACMMI and Pro-Health International in the future. I hope and pray that one day, we can take medical students and residents from Texas Tech University or other teaching hospitals on such missions. I guarantee that the experience will have a profound positive effect on these young healthcare providers in-training as it had on me. The benefits cannot be measured…they are life-long.

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