Amazing opportunity to volunteer in Argentina - add sparkle to your CV!
The Health Centers work together with local hospitals and provide the community with basic health care and prevention. They put special attention to women and children through their doctors and social workers. People are treated within the Centre and the doctors also go into the neighborhood to visit the community, their homes and to help analyzing the situation in order to help more effectively.
The “Centro de Atención Primaria” (Basic Health Care Center) has a comprehensive health concept that goes beyond the biological fact of the illness. Health is understood as a process affected by various causes, including poverty. Therefore, they mainly doctors promote community participation in preventing and finding solutions.
Volunteers tasks:
Assist in administrative tasks, health prevention workshops, providing information on prevention in the institution, and help with community involvement activities or individual patients.
The volunteer will shadow doctors and nurses and learn from their work and procedures, however, they won’t be able to practice medicine themselves unless this is approved by the professional in charge.
If the volunteer is an advanced in their medical studies, they could, under the supervision of a professional, help in the following tasks: cleaning and draining wounds, make and remove sutures, removing casts and bandages, apply injections, make suitable auscultations and physical exams.
