Med Access International
Hospitals and Health CareCalifornia, United States2-10 Employees
Med Access International is a Palm Desert, California-based non-profit organization that conducts humanitarian medical missions to provide basic healthcare, hygiene education, medical diagnoses, prescriptions, prosthetics, and life-changing surgeries to underserved populations in Central and South America and the Caribbean. The organization operates entirely through volunteers who cover their own travel costs, and it finances medicines and supplies for each mission through fundraising conducted online and at events. It selects mission sites in collaboration with local health officials to target communities with pronounced poverty, limited education, and constrained healthcare services, and it recruits volunteers across a wide range of medical specialties as well as support roles. The group has conducted missions in several countries, including Ecuador, Nicaragua, India, Peru, El Salvador, Paraguay, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic, and it emphasizes a volunteer-driven, community-needs approach within the hospitals and health care sector.