Provide 50,000 health services in Mexico

During these last eight months, the Mobile Medical Unit of Un Buen Grupo de Amigos, A.C. toured states of Puebla, Tlaxcala and Morelos.

 The Mobile Medical Unit offered health services of first and second level of medical care, dental interventions, dental prostheses, electrocardiography, ultrasonography, physical rehabilitation, dental prostheses, as well as the delivery of complete treatments (medications) to patients attended and orthoses as wheelchairs, to those who requested it and justified the use of them.

 The selection and programming of locations was carried out according to recent reports of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) in localities whose poverty index is high.

 The Foundation provided home medical consultation to patients whose serious state of health should be at absolute rest. For medical care, a basic team, made up of a doctor, a nurse and a health promoter, traveled to the home with medical equipment, nursing and medicines. The objective is to provide an integral, professional and very human service.

 Part of the medical team visited schools as part of the Health Promotion Program, where children were given workshops on important health issues, such as healthy eating and oral hygiene.

 The Foundation carried out an intense humanitarian work with its own team of doctors, dentists, nurses and health promoters. We continue to serve people in areas strongly affected by the earthquake that occurred on September 19, 2017, such as Mr. Bonfilio N., from Tehuitzingo, Puebla, he mentions us "Thank you very much. His type of activities are of great benefit to the community, because it has been a quality service, humanitarian and most importantly, free. I hope they come back to the community"

 Some figures of attention to from May 24 to August 22 are.

• Medical consultations      439
• Dental interventions        1060
• Diabetes detection           448
• Cholesterol detections     4
• Detection of hypertension         546
• Breast cancer detection  64
• Ultrasound to pregnant women          22
• Pelvic ultrasound  15
• Abdominal ultrasound    9
• Testicular ultrasound       1
• Renal ultrasound   1
• Electrocardiograms          29
• Physical rehabilitation     69
• Health self-care workshops       36
• People trained in self-care for health144

Total Free Health Services       2887

Links:

• Newsletters UBGA/2018 (website UBGA)

• EXTENSE_REPORT_UN_BUEN_GRUPO_DE_AMIGOS_MAYAUG_2018.pdf (PDF)
  

Providing medical services in marginalized areas

During these last five months, the Mobile Medical Unit of Un Buen Grupo de Amigos, A.C. toured states of Puebla, Tlaxcala and Morelos. The Mobile Medical Unit offered health services of first and second level of medical care, dental interventions, dental prostheses, electrocardiography, ultrasonography, physical rehabilitation, dental prostheses, as well as the delivery of complete treatments (medications) to patients attended and orthoses as wheelchairs, to those who requested it and justified the use of them.

The selection and programming of locations was carried out according to recent reports of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) in localities whose poverty index is high.

The Foundation provided "Humanitarian Aid in the area of Health" to those who were part of the Caravan of Central American Migrants, who on their way through the City of Puebla, needed health services, with quality and in a complete state (with medication), in a timely and free way,

The Foundation carried out an intense humanitarian work with its own team of doctors, dentists, nurses and health promoters. We continue to serve people in indigenous populations, such as Mrs. Celia, from the Barrio de San Nicolás Coatepec, in the Nahuatl indigenous language, she mentions us "Thank you very much for putting yourself in our shoes and supporting us with doctors in our dialect, who understand our roots and take care of our teeth and our health. Now I feel better and I can do more things "

Some figures of attention to from January to May are.

• Medical consultations                       336
• Dental interventions                         749
• Diabetes detection                            315
• Cholesterol detections                      4
• Detection of hypertension                456
• Breast cancer detection                    41
• Ultrasound to pregnant women       19
• Pelvic ultrasound                               10
• Abdominal ultrasound                       6
• Testicular ultrasound                        1
• Electrocardiograms                           21    
• Physical rehabilitation                      52
• Health self-care workshops             26
• Wheelchairs delivered                      8

Total Free Health Services                        2,044

Links:

• Un Buen Grupo de Amigos Website
• GlobalGiving Link
• Accreditation in institutionality and transparency by the Mexica

• Report of activities (PDF)