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- Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:08
For a week in March, Vasu Malepati, M.D.; his wife, Durga Malepati, M.D., and their daughter, Swathi Malepati, a medical student, traveled to El Salvador, Central America on a medical mission with the Foundation for International Medicine Relief for Children.
.jpg) Dr. Vasu Malepati performs an exam at a home in El Salvador, Central America |
During their time in El Salvador, the family treated local residents at clinics and made almost 10 home medical visits. They taught personal hygiene and the English language to children in community schools. Perhaps they have found the truest form of health and wealth, through the services they provide to others.
Of the seven nations that comprise Central America, El Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated. While the life expectancy is growing and infection rates are slowly decreasing, neither could be accomplished without the help of people like the Malepatis.
For 15 years, the Malepati family has been lending a healing hand through their medical expertise to people in more than 12 countries on four continents. They have provided care education and medical supplies to individuals from such countries as Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Peru, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Dr. Vasu Malepati, M.D. is an expert ear, nose and throat specialist of 25 years, providing care at his office in the Anthony M. Lombardi Education Conference Center at Monongahela Valley Hospital.
Of the seven nations that comprise Central America, El Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated. While the life expectancy is growing and infection rates are slowly decreasing, neither could be accomplished without the help of people like the Malepatis.
For 15 years, the Malepati family has been lending a healing hand through their medical expertise to people in more than 12 countries on four continents. They have provided care education and medical supplies to individuals from such countries as Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Peru, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Dr. Vasu Malepati, M.D. is an expert ear, nose and throat specialist of 25 years, providing care at his office in the Anthony M. Lombardi Education Conference Center at Monongahela Valley Hospital.
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