Our neurosurgery team soon departs for Paraguay where a promising new partnership has begun at the public hospital in Asunción.
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Team Chaplain, Aida Segura, shares her experiences from the first day of the general surgery mission trip.
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This week, we return to the San Juan de Dios Hospital to continue a partnership launched in 2015, working alongside the hospital’s dedicated O.R. staff to expand laparoscopic training.
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Our Gynecologic Surgery Program serves those patients who are so often overlooked, post-reproductive age women.
The humble crosses in a Bolivian cemetery inspired the start of our Pacemaker Program. Where Chagas Disease wreaks devestation, we strive to bring hope.
Advancing access to essential medical technology is a crucial component of the shared mission of Solidarity Bridge and Puente de Solidaridad. Our experience this week has proven to be a great opportunity to advocate for the international and local sharing of experience, building capacity, and reducing existing resource gaps.
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In Bolivia, biomedical engineering is a new and emerging field. Our partner hospitals in Cochabamba have requested assistance and training from biomedical engineers specialized in the repair of X-ray equipment.
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Dr. James (Jay) Herrmann MD, a dermatologist who has served thousands of patients on 16 mission trips to Bolivia, received Solidarity Bridge’s highest honor—the 2019 Solidarity Award—at our annual gala on May 4.
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The 2019 Oncological Surgery Mission Trip concluded in Santa Cruz on April 13. As with everything we do, it took an untold numbers of individuals and institutions working in solidarity to make this mission trip possible.
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First time Solidarity Bridge missioner, Jessica Waldo, shares her experience working with Bolivian nursing counterparts at the Instituto Oncológico del Oriente Boliviano.
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As we celebrate Palm Sunday and begin Holy Week, we enter into Jesus’ suffering and death. We journey with him through his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, and sit at the Last Supper with his disciples. We hear his agony in the Garden and witness his betrayal and crucifixion. We watch, as the women gather at the foot of his cross, and he breathes his last breath.
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This is Mission. Moving forward step by step, patient by patient. Celebrating lives restored, and doing what we can to maintain hope for a future for our patients and their families.
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OSMT sets off for Solidarity Bridge's second trip of 2019. The expanded team will be returning to the Cancer Institute of Eastern Bolivia in Santa Cruz for a week of surgeries and conferences.
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This week, we encounter the familiar story of the woman caught in adultery. A large crowd has gathered in the temple to hear Jesus teach, when the Pharisees bring in the woman and challenge Jesus as to her fate. They tell him that the law says she must be stoned. Jesus doesn’t rise to the bait or contradict the law. Instead, he tells them that whoever is without sin should cast the first stone. As Jesus writes in the dirt, one by one, the accusers leave. Jesus then rises and speaks directly to the woman. He does not dispense punishment, but asks her to change her ways.
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After a week of interviews with medical staff at the Santa Bárbara Hospital in Sucre, it became clear to the Solidarity Bridge mission team that this was the right place for a long-term partnership to advance neurosurgical care. The team was impressed with the scope of the need, but also with the professionalism and commitment of the Santa Bárbara nurses and physicians who serve an incredible volume of patients in spite of significant equipment and human resource limitations.
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