Virtue Foundation returns to Mongolia for 8th Annual Surgical and Teaching to Mongolia
For the last eight years, Virtue Foundation has traveled to Mongolia for it’s annual Virtue Foundation Surgical and Teaching Mission to Mongolia.
For the last eight years, Virtue Foundation has traveled to Mongolia for it’s annual Virtue Foundation Surgical and Teaching Mission to Mongolia.
In May of 2015, the Virtue Foundation and a team of 31 surgeons, nurses, and medical volunteers traveled to Mongolia for the annual Surgical and Teaching Mission to Mongolia.
The Virtue Foundation has returned from it’s sixth Surgical and Teaching Mission in Mongolia. This year, the mission team travelled to Mongolia in two groups, a smaller team in April, and a larger team in May.
On June 3, 2013, our team of 21 surgeons, doctors and staff returned from a successful medical and surgical teaching mission in Mongolia. In total, our volunteers spent 3 weeks on the ground in 3 different cities providing free medical and surgical care to families who would otherwise continue to be blind or disabled from…
In Mongolia, seeing is survival. For these nomadic peoples living in remote areas, surgery is an inaccessible, unaffordable luxury. During our fifth Mongolia surgical teaching mission, we will bring life-saving, sight-restoring operations to Mongolians while educating local surgeons. Contribute now by purchasing essential equipment and supplies for our team.
In May 2012, a team of 24 volunteer surgeons, residents, nurses, medical students and support staff joined Virtue Foundation’s Director of International Programming and Global Health Dr. Ebby Elahi and Co-Founder and Vice President Dr. Joan LaRovere to perform free, essential surgical care and to train local surgeons toward sustainable advancements in surgical healthcare delivery…
Virtue Foundation sponsors team of 24 medical professionals and obtains more than $900,000.00 USD worth of equipment and supplies to implement fourth surgical teaching mission in Ulaanbaatar and Khovd, Mongolia. In May 2012, a team of 24 volunteer surgeons, residents, nurses, medical students and support staff joined Virtue Foundation’s Director of International Programming and Global…
In May 2011, Virtue Foundation’s Director of International Programming and Global Health Dr. Ebby Elahi led a team of volunteer surgeons, residents and medical students to Mongolia to perform free, essential surgical care and to train local surgeons toward sustainable advancements in surgical healthcare delivery in the country’s capital city, Ulaanbaatar. Dr. Michael Shohet and…
Virtue Foundation returns to Mongolia in 2010 with an even larger team of physicians and surgeons for its second medical mission to Ulaanbaatar.
In June 2009, Virtue Foundation together with Surgical Eye Expeditions sponsored a team of physicians for a two-week surgical mission to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.