Medical Assistant Helps Deliver Medicine to Guatemala
April 30, 2009
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Melissa Mickelson, a certified medical assistant, and two doctors from the Mankato Clinic returned from a week-long trip to Guatemala to provide much-needed medical care to the villagers of San Lucas and other surrounding villages.
KEYC-TV interviewed the returning medical assistant and her colleagues for a report. The team, which included eight others, treated between 30 and 80 people each day, according to the news station, offering them whatever medicines and treatment they could.
"I have come back a changed person," said Melissa Mickelson, "It's hard coming back to the real world after being in a situation like that, you look at life differently."
The trip was organized by Minnesota Doctors for the Poor, a nonprofit organization based in Minnesota which has been organizing such missions since its founding in 2007.
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