Welcome to the Lamay Clinic

Program history

Peru Health Outreach Project is a month-long international medical school elective organized by medical students at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio, USA, and others who have joined the efforts.

We have been invited by the mayor of Lamay and a local nonprofit organization called Peruvian Hearts to provide basic medical care to people in Lamay, Peru and surrounding mountain villages. The project started in 2009, in which we took a group of about 30 medical students, physicians, and support staff and provided outpatient medical care to over 1000 patients over one month.

Our efforts will be divided between providing outpatient medical care in a local community clinic in Lamay, Peru (Puesto de salud de Lamay) and offering outpatient care in villages where there are very limited medical facilities.

Goals

Our goals are:

1. Help improve the medical care and living standards in Lamay and surrounding villages.
2. Provide an international educational experience for students and health care professionals interested in global healthcare.

How the clinic is run

Medical Supplies: We will bring some medical supplies donated to us through Med Wish international in Cleveland. All supplies must be carried by the participants of the trip. We will need to have an itemized list of all the supplies for each bag of supplies taken, along with a letter authorizing us to bring these supplies in order to pass the customs.

Medications: We have received some funds from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine to purchase medications. They will be purchased in the U.S. and in Peru. Glasses clinic: We will run a small glasses clinic. Please help us collect used glasses! Also, if you can purchase cheap reading glasses, those are in high demand.

Puesto de Salud de Lamay: This is a small clinic in Lamay, run by Dr.Rueda and a medical team. Half of our time will be spent in this clinic. We will be borrowing 3-4 exam rooms and running our clinic within the Puesto de Salud de Lamay. We will disperse medications we bring or buy.

1. Triage: Students will take basic information such as demographics and chief complaints.
2. History and Physical Performed by students, presented to faculty members and confirmed by faculty. We do not have the ability to use any imaging or blood tests except hematocrit assessment at the clinic.
3. Assessment, Plan, Treatment – If patients are critically ill requiring hospitalization, the local doctors at the clinic in Lamay can help us refer them to larger hospitals in Cusco.

Outreach: We will also spend some time seeing patients in remote villages in the mountains. Many of these patients do not speak Spanish, and speak only the local language, Quechua. They have very limited access to medical care. We may also visit some orphanages in the area.