Casa Colibri Mission - December 2018

Rochester Rotarians

Jay and Linda Eastman lead the 28th Medical/Dental Jornada (“Mission”) Team to Guatemala from December 1-9, 2018. After two days of travel to the clinic, the team saw patients from local villages over four days. Each village was scheduled to either the morning or afternoon on a particular day and the work went from 8am until about 6pm every day. In total, the team saw 987 patients for general medical needs, dental issues, maternity checkups, and eye problems. By the end of the week, they had extracted 1191 teeth, given out 226 eye prescriptions, and distributed thousands of toothbrushes, sunglasses, children’s multivitamins and prenatal vitamins among other things.

The team included:
- Jay Eastman – Founder and Pediatrician (Rotarian)
- Linda Eastman – Founder and Spanish Translator (Rotarian)
- Debra Hibbeln – Dentist
- Laurie Mulka – Dentist
- Paul Renke – Oral Surgeon
- Joe Naughton – Family Practice Physician
- Susan Bellefleur - Pediatrician
- Ryan Naughton – Medical Student
- Jessica Reidl – Nurse
- Val Alef – Nurse Practitioner
- Gerry Jackson – Engineer & Eye Technician (Rotarian)
-Lilianna Hibbeln – Spanish Translator
- Karen Malsbury – Teacher and Cook
- John Somerville – Videographer (Rotarian)

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