{"id":6373,"date":"2012-02-06T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T18:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=6373"},"modified":"2016-04-27T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:47:16","slug":"global-medical-brigades-students-plan-to-travel-to-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/global-medical-brigades-students-plan-to-travel-to-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Medical Brigades Students Plan To Travel To Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen Miami Dade College students are a part of Global Medical Brigades, a non-profit organization that provides free health care and financial and medical assistance to underdeveloped areas such as Panama, Honduras, and Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The students that are a part of the organization recently took a trip to an underdeveloped town in Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>Tabitha Baca, the president of Global Medical Brigades Club at MDC, shared how the people of the town were lacking in hygienic education, resources, and transportation to the hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Through the organization they were taught how to do vitals on the patients, hand out medications, and shadow doctors.<\/p>\n<p>The students plan to take a trip on July 31 for ten days to do the same in Ghana, Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Baca explained how rewarding it is to be a part of something like Global Medical Brigades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing selfless is a constant battle between desire and constrain but, the peace that results from it is invaluable,\u201d Baca said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact\u00a0President of Global Medical Brigades Club Tabitha Baca at\u00a0(305) 282-5200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen Miami Dade College students are a part of Global Medical Brigades, a non-profit organization that provides free health care and financial and medical assistance to underdeveloped areas such as Panama, Honduras, and Ghana. 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