BMS Medical Teams prove that short-term mission can have great benefits. Local people are given new hope, local medical workers are given training to develop new skills and team members have an opportunity to encounter God in new ways. Alleviating suffering and improving the quality of life for people in need is at the heart of the work of BMS. Year-on-year our Medical Teams do just that by offering treatment that would ordinarily be unavailable to the people in these regions.
In the past, team members have:
- performed life-changing operations
- trained and advised local medical staff
- treated patients who would not have otherwise been helped and
- passed on specific expertise in the use of medical equipment.
But it is not just the impact the teams have on the hospitals - team members return having their faith challenged and their experience of God deepened.
We are particularly looking for surgeons, anaesthetists, obstetricians, gynaecologists, midwives, nurses and other experienced medical specialists. Medical teams make a tangible and lasting difference to the lives of people in Bangladesh. Could you give two weeks of your time to use your professional skills in this way?
Teams go to Bangladesh in November each year. They are based at the Chandraghona Christian Hospital in Bangladesh and work alongside BMS personnel and partners. The hospital has been in existence for a century and serves a population of around 105,000 people, the vast majority of whom are tribal people groups and landless Bengali farmers.