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Medics For Mexico
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With our hurried routines, some of us get impatient if we have to wait half an hour at the doctor’s office. But there’s one place where patients don’t mind waiting for many hours, because it’s the only way they can get the help they need. And for one American nurse, helping them was a life-changing experience. |
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Susan Dungan could have spent her spring break at a Mexican resort. Instead, she’s sweating it out in a small town that tourists haven’t discovered, extending a healing touch to families who cannot afford medical care.
Susan Dungan / Louisiana Volunteers in Mission: “I see a very content people, but the need that I see is great for medical care.”
Dungan is a registered nurse, part of a team from the United Methodist Church’s Louisiana Volunteers in Mission. Twice a year for the past four years, she’s left behind modern medicine and paid her own way to work in makeshift clinics in Mexico.
Susan Dungan: “I have a strong faith in God, and, through prayer and just hearing Him, just began to get confirmations that this is what I need to do.”
Carboneros is on the Gulf of Mexico. The fishing here is good, but the economy is not. There’s no doctor for the 1200 people here. In just two days, these mission volunteers treat more than 200 people, and learn more about themselves. The experience changed Susan Dungan’s life. Now she’s taking night classes to become a nurse practitioner so she can do even more to help Mexico’s poor.
Susan Dungan: “We come with the presumption that we’re coming to help these people. And we leave with the overall and overwhelming confirmation that we were helped by them, in learning how big love is.”
And with no other payment, that is more than enough for Susan Dungan.
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Louisiana Volunteers in Mission hopes to send a medical team to Carboneras once a month to provide follow-up care. The organization also sends construction teams to Mexico to build houses and churches.