ISHI Blog

Well our time in Dapitan City has come to an end- What an incredibly fun and invigorating surgical mission this was! As this will serve as the fina

After a long week of surgeries, we rewarded ourselves with a day at the beach resort Dakak. It was so relaxing, and the perfect ending to a busy we

This is my first time volunteering for ISHI Global. Having never been exposed to the operating room prior to this mission, the OR team was very gen

I would like to thank all the members of the ISHI team and all of our colleagues and friends in Dapitan that made this surgical voluteer trip such

ISHI completed another successful mission! We concluded our surgical mission yesterday afternoon. We packed up and said farewell to the wonderf

  It began with 1 day of triage, where in excess of 150 patients were evaluated for surgery. This was followed by 6 busy days of non-stop

We are very proud to have two new ISHI volunteers on this mission with us: Karine Jimenez and Maria Lourdes Alonzo. They have come all the way from

Beautiful Dapitan City:         A local market:       &n

Today was our second day in the OR. Everything ran smoothly, and it turned out to be another rewarding day. Cathy Blaskewicz had another very busy

Day 2 in minor surgery and we've already done 46 cases.  Lots of lumps and bumps, serious stuff if you own one. Made lots of people happy,

End of surgery day # 2: Wow what a whirlwind day. Completed31 cases (10 in the OR and 21 minor cases). Starting cases yesterday proved to be formid

Today was awesome!!! We started off with a lot to do and had some obstacles...but we prevailed!  We did  25 minor cases and  9 major

OMG we survived the first day.... And who says anesthesia can not be done without a monitor.???? All we need is a working stethoscope.....

Today was Tuesday, Jan 31st, our first day in the OR. We completed 4 major surgeries in the a.m and 4 more in the afternoon, as well as 25 minors.

We finally reached our destination safely. Our host is very accommodating,the food is overflowing. I'm not complaining but all the diets were o

got to the philippines - manila and then dapitan, safe and sound! ate like "you know what!!!" already tired and obtunded before the start of t

Monday was Triage day. Everyone worked hard to make it a very sucessful day; we were able to book all of our OR and minor surgery patients for the

We arrived in Dapitan City this afternoon- Flight from Manila to Dipolog and then a short drive to Dapitan City.  We were greeted by a beautif