The Tandana Foundation has announced the successful completion of its October 2012
Health Care Volunteer Vacation in Ecuador. A team of 16 volunteers and four trip
coordinators helped provide medical care to 902 schoolchildren and adult
community members in ten different villages in the canton of Otavalo.
Liberty Center resident Jack Krueger, who drives a bus at Bowling Green University,
and his wife Marilyn were two of the volunteers on this trip. This was their
second time traveling with Tandana.
From Oct. 6 to 21, the volunteer team went, in the mornings, to local elementary
schools and community centers in rural villages to treat patients.
The trip’s team included both volunteers who have a medical background and those who
do not. The medical professionals included three physician assistants, three
nurses and two doctors. There was also a local dentist.
The doctors and physician assistants treated 284 patients, and 211 patients received
dental care. The nurses conducted checkups on 496 children, who also got
parasite medication.
Other volunteers completed intakes on the patients, took vital signs and conducted
vision screening.