The Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital International
Medicine Program is creating relationships in Latin America
and the Caribbean to serve children.
10 to 12 nurses from Guatemala beginning next year. We are
providing and expanding our services to countries in the Central
America and Caribbean regions.
"We are creating ongoing relationships in these countries so
that we can serve children," adds Sosa, who recently returned
from a neonatal-perinatal conference in Guatemala. "Some of
these kids are very sick, while others need a consultation or a
second opinion."
Several students train at Johns Hopkins All Children's each year
through a relationship with the Universidad Francisco Marroquín
School of Nutrition in Guatemala.
"Five or six physicians also come from El Salvador and
Guatemala to rotate through certain specialties each year,"
he says. When these physicians return to their own countries
to practice, they share their experience of Johns Hopkins
All Children's, broadening knowledge of the highest levels of
care we offer.
The international program is giving parents like Florence,
with high-risk pregnancies and high acuity babies, great
comfort in knowing they have the option of high-quality care at
Johns Hopkins All Children's, just an air ambulance ride away.
"The idea of going to another country was scary," Florence
says, "but having the option to transfer Fernando to Johns Hopkins
All Children's through the international program was the best
choice for us."
Visit HopkinsAllChildrens.org/International to learn
more about the International Medicine Program at Johns
Hopkins All Children's Hospital.
Juan Diego gives his
brother, Fernando, a
kiss as Florence and
Emilio spend time with
their children.
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