Many of us take our visits to the doctor or dentist for granted. Sometimes we forget to cancel an appointment or get irritated when the office is running behind. Millions of impoverished families around the world would gladly walk miles over rugged terrain and stand in line for days for the chance to see a doctor or dentist. See how you can Prescribe Life to a sick child or pain-riddled adult.

In the United States
School required that five-year-old Wyatt have a dental exam. His mother was raising nine children on the Navajo Reservation in Utah while her husband finished time in prison. She didn’t have the money or transportation to fulfill this requirement. But Wyatt had to attend school!

As part of the national medical program, Operation Blessing held a dental clinic not far from Wyatt’s home. The little boy didn't utter a peep as he received numerous fillings. Several of his brothers and sisters also received treatment.

That mission was only the beginning! This year we already have medical missions scheduled to help migrant workers in Virginia and Idaho as well as poverty-stricken families in North Carolina’s Appalachia Region. Thousands are waiting for care. We need your help in bringing life-changing treatment to those and other desperately needy people!

Overseas
Since our first international medical mission in 1994, Operation Blessing has provided medical care for over 1 million people in more than 36 countries including Afghanistan, Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, India, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Romania, Rwandan refugee camps, Vietnam, the United States and Ukraine. Right now, we have medical mission programs actively treating the poorest of the poor in Guatemala, Philippines, China, Indonesia, Nigeria and Thailand! A few months ago, poor Ukrainians were also treated to free medical care.

Kochan, 73, came to the medical mission in Lutsk, Ukraine in pain. She hadn’t been able to bend her knee for over a year. Not able to afford medicine or a doctor’s visit, Kochan’s only choice was to live in constant misery. One of our doctors determined the elderly woman had bursitis, an inflammation of a bursa sac between the joints. After minor surgery and a small amount of recovery time, Kochan was living pain free!

Our Health Care Plan…
• Sends volunteer professionals to rural villages and low income neighborhoods to operate both medical and dental missions

• Seeks out children and adults needing life-saving medical care

• Sets children and adolescents free through cleft lip and palate surgery

• Freely treats patients that can’t afford health care

• Gives vitamins, over the counter medicine and prescriptions

• Educates patients in hygiene and nutritional care as well as HIV/AIDS awareness

• Ships medicines, equipment and supplies to hospitals and clinics in developing countries so they can provide better care for their patients

Give a Healing Touch
There are so many more children and adults whose lives depend on seeing a doctor, dentist or surgeon!

HOW YOU CAN HELP
Be a part of OBI's ongoing medical relief efforts by making an online contribution to help those suffering from extreme poverty and sickness.

 

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