Surgical follow-up to the spring
Women's Health Expedition to southern Guyana
Dates:
Dates June 17-24
Team
Members
Stan Brock, Lead/co-pilot
Lars Perkins, pilot
Rebecca Kightlinger, OB/Gyn
Stephanie Smith, MD anesthesia
Fred Price MD surgeon
Wayne Smith, RN
Our Women's Team visit Guyana
from June 18 to 23. Drs Price, Smith, and Kightlinger,
and nurse Wayne Smith attended to the gynecological
needs of 23 Amerindian ladies who were brought to
Georgetown for these services. By the time the trip
was complete, the team had performed 5 hysterectomies
(three of which were radical hysterectomies), drained
a fluid collection from a pseudomyxoma, and performed
more than a dozen therapeutic LEEPs and D&Cs.
During the trip, Stan Brock
and Lars Perkins travelled into the interior of Guyana
to continue laying groundwork for a future hospital
that RAM hopes to build and operate.
While
the expedition was underway, Wayne Smith kept a running
journal of his experience. You can read it here.
