Health & nutrition

Before Epilogos...

Dental services were primitive - at best! Medicine was scarce. Few, if any, medical services reached residents of remote areas. Water, if available at all, was contaminated. Dengue fever was prevalent. A nearby hospice for indigent patients was frequently running out of morphine, and family members could not afford to visit their dying relatives. 

There was virtually no eye care.

...And now

• The village has a complete dental clinic and welcomes visits by U.S. volunteer dentists
• Various U.S. volunteer medical professionals conduct rural health clinics several times a year
• Many groups bring purchased or donated medical equipment and medicine
• Health professionals donate mosquito nets and home water purification units to those who otherwise can't afford them
  
• Families of dying patients have transportation to the hospice; the costs of caskets and burial are donated
• Hundreds of villagers have received eye exams, glasses, and surgeries at reduced cost; thanks to donations from U.S. professional groups, a nonprofit eye care facility in the capital city has thousands of eyeglasses