Medical Brigades & Community Outreach

• Visiting medical brigades occupy a special niche in promoting community health.
• Community Health Workers, local nurses and doctors are the true pillars of health care for many of those communities.
• Visiting and local caregivers can learn a lot from each other and their partnership can result in improved heath for the families that they serve.
• Visitors: Expect to see diseases that have been controlled in the developed countries.
• Locals: Be ready to teach visitors about the realities of medical care in your setting.
• Sometimes by studying together, exchanging ideas and opinions, we can do better work together than we could alone.