Panama
Ngäbe Community Support
Health Goes Global supports the sustainable health care brought to 32 remote Ngäbe communities in the archipelagos of Bocas del Torro, Panama. These mobile clinics are carried out by Floating Doctors, our longest standing partner, since 2017. Ongoing primary care, emergency care, dental care, education, advocacy, training, and community development is brought by boat to almost 200 patients on clinic days. An emphasis on preventative care and sustainability is achieved by revisiting these remote villages every 3 months to manage their chronic health issues.
In 2023 our support will focus on supplying clinics with medical examination gloves.
In years past we have provided soap and fluoridated toothpaste.
Pictured above is Hannah Akre, Gloves Go Global Executive Director and Co-Founder, working the intake station volunteering with Floating Doctors in 2017 in the community Norteño .
Ethan Klausmeyer, Health Goes Global Board of Directors and Ben LaBrot, Floating Doctors Founder pictured at the Floating Doctors base in Bocas Del Torro.
HGG is honored to continue support to Floating Doctors because they embody our mission of sustainable preventative health care, and they celebrate, respect, and help preserve the Ngäbe cultural way of living.
A volunteer teaches this young girl how to effectively wash her hands with soap and water.
For some Ngäbe people, they would have to travel 6 hours by boat to the nearest hospital to seek medical care. Fortunately, Floating Doctors has special permission from the Panamanian government to travel with extreme precaution to these vulnerable communities in 2021, many of which are only accessible via boat.
“By continuing our sustainable partnership with Floating Doctors, we will work towards our collective mission of global disease prevention and elevating the quality of life for the underserved through preventive health care.”
-Hannah Akre, Health Goes Global Executive Director
