Story and photos by Xavier-Thomas Mendoza Four doctors from the United Kingdom volunteered in the Leyte area working in clinics and even leading the annual health clinic events at the Volunteer for the Visayans (VFV) centers. Alex Moss, Lloyd Halsey, Molly Stewart and Sachin Sharma worked together to give general health check ups to
What did VFV Volunteer Erin do when she found out some of the clinic staff had forgotten their Emergency First Aid training? Plan and run a refresher course for them! I joined Erin (a trainee paramedic) at the Pastrana Rural Health Unit to see what happened. Erin started by
What is it like to be a volunteer on a medical placement? Erin (19) is a trainee paramedic from Australia who has been working at Pastrana Rural Health Unit near Tacloban for a couple of weeks. She is getting to put into practice skills gained at home plus learn plenty of new ones with the