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Volunteer Cameroon Volunteering Abroad Opportunities Health Care Mission

Volunteers with medical experience are needed to work in a very busy rural community clinic in Etoho village, north of Buea. The clinic is the main health center for over 15,000 people in the surrounding villages. There is a wide variety of cases but disease such as malaria, HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and syphilis, as well as childbirth/maternity needs are most common.

Volunteers with medical training; doctors, nurses, paramedics, lab technicians participate in direct patient care such as diagnosing, injections, IV starts and lab work.. Nursing and medical students are welcome and assist with tasks like dressing wounds, record and immunization chart keeping, helping dispense medications, helping to screen and organize patients and assisting with administrative needs or seminars. *Medical volunteers must submit a copy of their credentials or nursing certificate. Volunteer live within walking distance to the clinic, and are accompanied by ABV staff from Buea.