DGMC medical team returns from Nicaraguan mission
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (USTCNS) -- A medical team from David Grant Medical Center here recently returned from Nicaraguan health clinics in Juigalpa and Santo Tomas where they provided preventive health care to 4,815 patients.
Five doctors, one dentist, three residents, one nurse and three medical technicians departed in April with nine pallets of medical supplies.
"Most patients suffered respiratory illnesses and intestinal parasites. The older patients were treated for chronic diseases common to their age group," said Col. (Dr.) Peter Holm, a pediatrician at David Grant Medical Center.
The team's dentist extracted 929 teeth, primarily due to poor diet, anemia and the lack of dental care over an extended period of time. U.S. and Nicaraguan troops began joint exercises in the summer of 2000, which included building three health clinics and a school in an impoverished rural area.
"The people of the Department of Chontales, Nicaragua were very gracious and appreciative of our humanitarian medical and dental services," Holm said. "The deployment was a win-win mission because the less fortunate people of Nicaragua were offered quality health care, and deployed medical team members received hands-on medical readiness training."
Nicaragua is the largest but most sparsely populated of the Central American nations and remains one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. (FROM AIR MOBILITY COMMAND NEWS SERVICE)
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