We Asked, You Answered: Are Fly-In Medical Missions Helpful Or Harmful?
Our readers weigh in on volunteer missions, where Western medical workers spent a short time in a poor country providing free care.
by Marc Silver
Jun 02, 2019
3 minutes
For decades, doctors and nurses from rich countries have flown to poor countries to perform surgery and provide other medical care not readily available. They stay for a limited period of time. Then they head back home.
That model for providing care is being reconsidered, as health reporter Joanne Silberner wrote in a story we published this spring.
We wanted to hear from our readers: If you've been part of a fly-in mission, what was it like? What were the
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