GLOBAL BRIGADES USA

Medical Brigades at UC San Diego

• About
  Medical Brigades and Dental Brigades at UC San Diego are chapters of Global Brigades, the world\'s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Volunteers provide urgent and preventive services in communities with limited access to healthcare. The UCSD chapter systematically works with more than 300 other university groups around the world to deliver and implement one of nine skill-based programs that benefit more than 130,000 Honduran and Panamanian community members annually. Medical Brigades develops sustainable health initiatives and provides relief where there is limited access to healthcare. Dental Brigades provides Hondurans with dental hygiene care, proper oral hygiene instructions, restorative care to the teeth that can be saved and extractions for the ones that cannot. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are treated and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends.