Medical Brigade: August 11-25, 2012

Application deadline extended! June 1 for doctors in order to get paperwork turned, and June 15 for all other applicants! Download an application, flyer and information sheet. Since 2009, the Ministry of Health has implemented important new programs to guarantee access to health care for all Salvadorans, regardless of income or employment, while revamping their health care model to reflect preventative and community-based care, and an emphasis on women's health. Click here to read a first-hand account of the Community Health Teams in action! These exciting new programs require a tremendous amount of personnel and supplies, and the Ministry of Health has issued a call for support from the international medical community! On this brigade, we will provide direct medical care to targeted communities and begin linking hospitals, universities, nurses' unions and other organizations of health care professionals with the Ministry of Health and public health care unions in El Salvador. Join the brigade and lend a hand to this international effort!

• Medical Spanish fluency strongly desired, but not required
• Download the brigade info sheet for full details on activities
• Cost is $1350 -1800 total: $700 in-country costs, $150-300 sliding scale registration fee, and $500-800 plane fare

TO APPLY submit an application by June 1st (doctors only) or by June 15 (all other applicants) and let your local CISPES chapter know that you want to join the brigade! If you don't live near a CISPES chapter,  please direct questions and applications to brigade coordinator Alexis Stoumbelis in the National Office: [email protected], (202) 521-2510 ext. 205. ¡Salud para tod@s!