Our Mission:
To Heal.
Twenty years ago, St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center was a dream, a dream to serve our least fortunate brothers and sisters in the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Today, it is a thriving medical clinic offering free medical assistance to those who would otherwise not receive it.
The St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center is a two-story facility with consultation rooms, a pre-op area, four operating rooms, recovery room, patient rooms for short term recovery after surgery, a pharmacy and dental clinic. The St. Gerard program for pre and post-natal care, rural health program. The clinic also offers ophthamology, psychology, and nutrition consultations.
Dental Clinic
Our beautiful and modern dental clinic operates every morning, and is available exclusively to children and adults from underprivileged families.
Consultations
The Center operates as a basic healthcare clinic year treating approximately 3,000 patients per month.
Surgical Missions
Six to seven times a year, medical brigades from the United States come to offer surgical procedures otherwise unavailable to the poor.
St. Gerard Program
This pre and post-natal care program helps new mothers ensure their babies get a healthy start in life.
OPHTHALMOLOGY
Our Impact
On a monthly basis the Medical Center averages more than 2000 consultations. Eight to Ten times a year Medical Brigades from the States come to offer surgical procedures, often 100 or more in a week’s time, otherwise unavailable to the poor.
Thank you, for without your direct help we would not be able to offer such important services. Please help us to continue this wonderful apostolate to the poor!
2000+
consultations Per Month
1100+
Surgeries per Year
$0
Total charged
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I have gone on 2 mission trips to Comayagua, and as each mission has come to an end I have been eager for the next to begin. That simple statement, “I guess I could go,” has become, to my gratitude and surprise, one of the most rewarding I have made.
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Dr. Mark Tasch / Read More Tetimonials