Whether for lack of specialists to treat them or whether because patients can´t travel to the cities, hundreds of inhabitants from far-away rural areas and margined people don´t have access to adequate treatment.

This reality has caused CEIBA-Friends of the Earth Guatemala to work in capacity building, implementation of women´s clinics, community first aid kits, labour equipment, implementation of dental clinics, gardens of medicinal plants, implementation of labs to process medicinal plants, mental health programs and support health associations.

During these years of work, CEIBA has found people suffering from diseases that require special attention, such as tumors, untreated fractures, burns, cleft lip, cleft palate, and other malformations.

Medical treatment in these cases can only be provided through private institutions, who are inaccessible for peasants and indigenous people from Guatemala.

During three years, members from CEIBA and people from Jacaltenango hospital systematized information about the needs of the population to organize a surgery day with the presence of volunteer specialists from Spain and Germany, in addition to local doctors.

Surgenos, anesthesiologists, intensive care specialists and orthopedic surgeons from Hospital de la Paz in Madrid and Yague de Burgos in the Basque Country are working extremely hard for those who need them in Jacaltenango. They will be in Guatemala until March 16th.