Canvasback's Ongoing Programs Meet
Overwhelming Needs:

Outer Island Clinics:

Primary health care and dentistry, health education classes, child immunizations, plus training to upgrade skills and empower local health workers to better care for their people.

Relief Ministry:

Acquisition, packaging and shipping of needed medicines, supplies and equipment to hospitals and outer island dispensaries.

Specialty Teams:

Teams of specialists fly in to provide training, consultation and surgeries in hospitals where such services are unavailable. Specialties include ophthalmology, orthopedics, E.N.T., ob/gyn, and urology.

Preventive Programs:

Development and implementation of a diabetes reversal and lifestyle change program for the Marshall Islands, where more than half the adult population suffers from diabetes.

One of Canvasback's medical volunteers, orthopedic surgeon Bob Wells from Portland, OR, has provided compassionate care to hundreds of needy islanders.

Canvasback Has . . .

• provided the first outside mobile medical services to relieve pain and suffering

• completed more than 43,000 patient exams and 27,000 dental procedures in the Marshall islands and the Federated States of Micronesia...

• given more than $9.5 million in compassionate medical and dental services, health education and relief supplies to needy Pacific Islanders.

• Canvasback has coordinated specialty teams in cataract, retinopathy, orthopedic, and ENT surgery, continuing education and diabetes reversal programs valued at more than $3 million.