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Article: Medical team offers services on Central American mission trip.(Neighbor)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2009
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A 19-year-old man injured in a machete fight and a mother who spent two hours carrying her baby up a mountain were among more than 1,700 patients treated by a medical mission team from Adventist Midwest Health that traveled to Central America recently.
Adventist Midwest Health which includes four suburban hospitals in Bolingbrook, Glendale Heights, Hinsdale and LaGrange sponsors an international mission trip annually for a team of physicians, employees and guests.
For the second year in a row, the team partnered with Pan American Health Services Inc. in Honduras to set up medical centers in remote areas and care for children at a nutritional orphanage, ...