Nineteen students from the Pacific Union College (PUC) in California held a medical camp on Mana Island from March 22-30.
311 patients were seen in this period.
“This is an eye-opening experience as it allows the students to see how the local community lives,” said Sandra Ringer, PUC assistant professor of nursing.
“Our lifestyle directly affects our health. It also provides cultural competence as students discover that not everyone lives and functions as we do and then apply health principles that can assist with lifestyle changes.”
“We are not trying to make them live like the Western world, just encouraging healthy surroundings.”
One of the physicians who joined these mission trips for the past three years raised $20k to build a medical and dental clinic on the Seventh-day Adventist school compound in Mana, where PUC students began the building project.
