NEUROSURGERY IN BOLIVIA

For those with spinal or brain illness or injury, a neurosurgery can mean the difference between life and death. In the U.S., neurosurgery has advanced considerably and surgeons perform miracles everyday. However, in Bolivia, neurosurgeons continue to use primitive technology and the poor have little access to any services at all. While there are dedicated Bolivian neurosurgeons willing to care for their fellow citizens, their resources are extremely limited.

Without recourse, poor Bolivians suffer horribly with painful and disabling neurological conditions. Children wait endlessly in hospitals for shunts to drain the fluid from their swollen heads. Injured workers, previously earning just a few dollars a day as the only income for their families, now remain bedridden for months because of spinal fractures. Without our help, these people live in agony or die.

OTHER MEDICAL PROGRAMS

Children's Bridge Program
Children's Vision Program
Medical Supplies Program
Open Heart Program
Pacemaker Program

NEUROSURGEY PROGRAM

Under the leadership of Richard Moser, MD, Solidarity Bridge supplies our Bolivian partners with critically needed neurosurgery materials, equipment, instruments, implants and training. We own and maintain the equipment and supplies, ensuring that the resources are truly accessible to those with no other means and in the most critical medical need.

While focusing on serving Bolivians in deep poverty, the Neurosurgery Program promotes neurosurgical care for all Bolivians. We have targeted the three major population regions of Bolivia, La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, to nourish a collaborative and self-sustaining relationship between physician staff and administration of Bolivian public sector hospitals and corresponding private facilities to provide infrastructure in support of neurosurgery. Local neurosurgeons access the combined resources to treat their patients regardless of ability to pay.