Training and Equipment
We Improve the quality of national and local health care systems.
Our local partner health services are chronically under-resourced and overworked. The bright and hard working staff face long hours, shortages of supplies, and limited continuing education to help them keep up with global best practices. Most public hospitals lack equipment and supplies, while shoestring budgets leave an overburdened health system needing urgent support.
Public hospitals and clinics are severely overstretched and underfunded, so we provide containers of donated equipment and supplies.
Medical professionals need continuing education to learn new practices and technology, and to keep sharp with their existing skills. So we provide training on a number of specialized topics that Hospital leadership requests.
The country lacks specialists and training programs, so we are contribute equipment and supplies towards new training programs with the government, such as the new Emergency Medicine Program in Tegucigalpa.
Training
VHC leverages our international medical experts to train local health partners in the latest best practices.
Equipment
We also collect medical equipment and supplies from US medical partners for use in under-resourced hospitals and clinics in Honduras.
Our Work in 2024
In 2024, our medical teams:
- Sent a container 40-foot container packed with medical equipment and supplies (We have shipped over 25 containers since 1999).
- Trained 17 rehabilitation therapists and 28 medical NICU staff members topics, including breastfeeding techniques, dysphagia management, the relationship - between vision and cervical movement, lumbar pain management, apraxia of speech treatment, and more.
- Trained 11 Community Health Workers and 2 government nurses in a week long course of women’s health, pregnancy, and delivery risks
- Trained 29 first responder personnel on the proper use of AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) -which we also donated to the hospital and fire department
- Trained 49 partner hospital staff on topics from managing postpartum hemorrhage to NICU infant care to instruction in newly donated medical equipment.
Medical Professionals
Medical professionals play a crucial role in the work of VHC Honduras as they provide essential medical care and services to those in need. The collaboration between US-based volunteers and local Honduran medical professionals allows for the effective delivery of healthcare in the community, helps to improve the overall health and wellbeing of the population, and provides a sustainable path towards quality care.
