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International Medical Alliance Assembles Team for Medical Mission to Ecuador

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The group is still seeking two more anesthesiologists, a dental assistant and a pharmacist to join its July 9th to 19th mission to Ibarra, Ecuador
Posted: May 26, 2009
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ALLIANCE ASSEMBLES TEAM FOR MEDICAL MISSION TO THE IMBABURA PROVINCE OF ECUADOR

The group is still seeking two more anesthesiologists, a dental assistant and a pharmacist to join its July 9th to 19th mission to Ibarra, Ecuador


RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif., May 26, 2009 – A Southern California non-profit group is seeking two anethesiologists, a dental assistant and a pharmacist to join its upcoming medical mission to Ecuador.

Rancho Mirage-based International Medical Alliance (IMA) has assembled a team of more than 60 doctors, nurses, dentists and support personnel who have agreed to volunteer their time and talents on a 10-day medical mission to Ibarra, Ecuador, from July 9th to 19th.

“We have an incredible group of volunteers joining us for our medical mission, including general, plastic and maxillofacial surgeons,” said Ines Allen, IMA’s founder and president, adding that Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage and John F. Kennedy Hospital in Indio have donated medicines and other supplies to support the mission.

However, the group is still seeking a few more volunteers, including two anethesiologists. “If we have more anesthesiologists, we can perform more life-changing surgeries,” Allen said.
IMA’s volunteer surgeons typically perform surgeries to remedy cleft lips,  cleft palates and other facial deformities, all of which can lead not only to incessant infections, but to difficulties with basic functions, such as eating, drinking, talking, hearing and breathing.

Allen said the group also needs another dental assistant and a pharmacist to help support the existing team.

In addition to volunteering their time and talents, the volunteers in IMA’s July mission to Ibarra are paying for their own airfare. Their room and board, however, will be provided by the Ecuadorian government.

IMA’s mission to Latacunga, Ecuador last year included American 62 doctors, surgeons, nurses and other support personnel from who collectively examined more than 6,200 patients, while performing more than 130 surgeries, 600 dental procedures and nearly 500 eye examinations.

More than 32,000 indigent Ecuadorians have received medical services from IMA since the organization was founded in 2000, Allen said, adding that she is already laying the groundwork for a medical mission to El Salvador next year.

Based in Rancho Mirage, International Medical Alliance is a non-profit organization that recruits doctors from every medical discipline to volunteer their time and talents to make a positive difference in the lives of children and adults with limited economic means, both in the U.S. and overseas.

IMA’s latest U.S. hardship case involved Luis Fernando Sandoval Felix, a 17-year-old Thermal, Calif. boy who lost his left arm and shoulder after a motorcycle accident. IMA raised the funds to purchase an upper extremity prosthesis for Luis, and recruited Robert Openshaw, a San Bernardino-based prosthetist and IMA volunteer, to assemble it and customize it for Luis free of charge. Luis received his new arm earlier this year.

If you would like to volunteer on an upcoming IMA mission or to learn more about IMA’s efforts in the Coachella Valley and overseas, please contact Ines Allen at (760) 485-8963 or visit http://www.internationalmedicalalliance.org.

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