![]() ![]() Troops and offering medical aid to the Cayo District community something else that is an improvement over her last rotation. Providers and nurse practitioners from San Ignacio and Belmopan are working alongside U.S. Mixed in with the Army and Air Force doctors and nurses are members of the Belize medical community. Services offered include general medical health, OB/GYN, Women’s Health, Dental, Pediatrics and Optometry. The park rapidly filled with people sitting in chairs under tents and trees, waiting for their number to be called.Īfter checking in, they were directed to tents designated for specific medical treatment. People began lining up in the early morning hours in order to be first to receive a ticket for general medical or dental services. Mendenhall says that they have approximately 6,000 pairs of glasses in their inventory for the medical event. “There are some patients who will require different glasses for reading and distance vision.” “I anticipate seeing over a hundred people a day,” the major from Provo, Utah says. Mendenhall says that he is prepared to receive a lot of requests for prescription glasses. The generators power their automatic refractormeter, a tool used to measure where a person’s eyes focus, helping to determine if they need glasses or not. Anglia Matheis, reservists assigned to Wyoming MedDet for the two-week mission. The hum of the generators in the background greet patients as they filter into the optometry tent, manned by Maj. It allows us to bring and use more specialized items we wouldn’t be able to otherwise.” It makes it easier to work out the kinks of supply and transportation of medical equipment. “Just for the way this is set up, where it is in one location throughout the whole duration. Surdan, who works in the women’s health tent, claims that the way the event is set up this year is better than her previous experience. Amy Surdan, a nurse practitioner with the Wyoming Medical Detachment, has served on a previous Beyond the Horizon mission. and Belize partnership exercise designed to provide humanitarian and engineering services to communities in need, demonstrating U.S. Soldiers from the Wyoming National Guard kicked off the second of three medical readiness events as part of Beyond the Horizon 2017 at Macal River Park in San Ignacio, Belize May 8.
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