OR Microscope Donated to
Guatemala Hospital

After receiving a donation of an operating room microscope, an arrangement was made in September with La Familia of San Francisco to ship the  microscope to a hospital in rural Guatemala. This $40,000 piece of equipment is now helping to treat their indigenous population.

Dr. Robert Johnson peers into the operating room microscope
recently donated to Guatemalan hospital

Donation to Help Medical - Surgical Mission in Guatemala

Eighteen middle ear surgical instruments were donated by VRF to help at the Hospital de la Familia in northern Guatemala. This hospital was built by the Family Club of San Francisco, and four times a year a team of American physicians travel there to donate their time and expertise doing needed surgery on local patients who have been selected by their doctors.

The instruments were given to Dr. Aditi Mandpe, a San Francisco practicing otolaryngologist, who transported them for use at the hospital. Some of the procedures performed were for hearing loss, mastoid infections, and reconstructive ear surgery.

A Guatemalan mother and her child