Working with limited time and resources to deliver health care to a population with great need, it’s easy to get caught up in the numbers, but our “patients aren’t just numbers.”

Our multi-specialty mission team has arrived at their new hospital site in Mizque, and is looking forward to an exciting week of work ahead.

Fast facts about the Multi-Specialty Mission Trip that begins on September 28. A team of 18 Solidarity Bridge missioners will spend a week of service and learning at Dr. Augusto Morales Asua public hospital, 93 miles southeast of Cochabamba in the municipality of Mizque.

Surgery is a complex service. Only through timeliness, system capacity, safety, and affordability can surgery truly be considered accessible. Learn how our work increases access through these four-key components of surgery.

In our second blog on the Need for Surgery, we explore the case for surgery as part of essential health services.

Solidarity Bridge donates millions of dollars worth of specialized equipment and supplies to Bolivia each year. To accomplish this, we need lots of help packing, boxing, and loading supplies for transport.

As surgically treatable disease is on the rise, we explore why surgery should be a priority on the global health agenda.

Donors David and Elizabeth “Tibby” Ford, who live in Washington, DC, first learned about Solidarity Bridge from longtime missioner Dr. Gay Garrett. Their involvement and support has grown over time.

This month, join our team in reflecting more deeply on the meaning of solidarity and how it applies to our work.

An interview with Doctors Jaime Vallejos and Johnny Camacho, general surgeons and longtime partners from Viedma Hospital in Cochabamba, during their 2018 Solidarity Visit to the United States.

While saving one life, each pacemaker we implant can heal and empower an entire family. Patients in 2017 included mothers and fathers with families who depend on them, and even children themselves. Meet some of the families who received this restorative care through our Pacemaker Program in 2017.

After months of planning and weeks of transit, nearly nine tons of medical supplies are on their way to Bolivia, expanding patients’ access to lifesaving surgical care.