Following the example of Jesus

“We are pleased to have spent this week with you here in Honduras, helping all our brothers and sisters who needed medical attention”, this were the words of Karen Morris, leader of the medical group - missionary of San Marcos, Texas, that every year comes to visit and help our institution. They bring with them healing and treatment for all those people who do not have the economic resources to visit a doctor. During for four days, approximately more than two thousand people of different communities in the department of Cortes, Honduras, had the opportunity to receive gratuitous medical attention, thanks to the collaboration and the arduous effort of more than 25 doctors and nurses, who with the aid of Karen Morris, arrived at PAHS with the unique intention of being able to provide medical visits and medicines for their neighbors in Honduras. “There is no better reward than the smiles of little children or the hugs of an ancient, when they receive the help that we brought to them. We are so glad to share our time with these people”, said Gaby Arriaga, one of the nurses group.Only the first day, this beautiful group managed to take care of more than seven hundred people, everything a record in the institution, hundreds of people made enormous rows to receive the provided aid for them. The San Marcos’s group decided to divide their group in two teams, to serve many more communities, with four doctors in each team they managed to take care of around three hundred thousand people, there were a lot of patients that they had to buy more medicines in the local market. In Pan-American Health Service, everyone feel extremely thankful by the aid received, not only for our institution but also towards our compatriots. God bless to each member of San Marcos’s Hospital, Texas, thanks for your invaluable aid!

• Taulabe, San Antonio, Peña Blanca and Santa Barbara, were some of the communities where the San Marcos´s group offered medical attention and medicines.