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June 28, 2005 – Celebration, FL. Residents of Juliaca, Peru now enjoy better medical facilities and will soon have a new elementary school thanks to a group of 40 volunteers from Florida Hospital Celebration Health, Florida Hospital Kissimmee, and Florida Hospital Waterman. This group of physicians, nurses, support staff, administrators, and other volunteers recently returned from spending eleven days building a new surgical training facility and elementary school in this underdeveloped area, enduring altitude sickness and a transportation strike. Florida Hospital Celebration Health employees raised more than $60,000 to make the trip possible.
“All of the Florida Hospital volunteers are thrilled to have been part of this project. Thanks to their generosity and hard work, the people of Juliaca now enjoy better health care and education opportunities,” said David Banks, Florida Hospital Celebration Health administrator.
A specialized team of volunteers from the Surgical Learning Institute at Florida Hospital Celebration Health brought donated medical equipment, worth over a quarter of a million dollars, to install a complete endoscopic setup, enabling the first ever laprascopic procedure to take place at Clinica Americana. This procedure was made possible by a previous mission trip by Florida Hospital volunteers in which two surgical suites for minimally invasive surgery were constructed.
Within the new surgical training facility, a distance learning model is currently being implemented to train and proctor surgeons as they develop endoscopic skills. In addition, planning for a hands-on surgical skills lab is taking place and is scheduled for completion within a year.
For more information, contact Florida Hospital Media Relations at (407) 303-8217.
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For more information, please contact Florida Hospital Media Relations at (407) 303-1917.
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