SIX CHILDREN have received heart surgery through MEDRIX and its partners’ sponsorship.

The procedures make a lifetime’s difference.

Without surgery, these boys and girls would see a listless childhood, without the strength to go to school regularly or to play with other kids. As such, children like these are often identified as weak children, unable to support a family’s future and therefore not worth any great investment of resources.

However, these mothers and fathers loved their children so much that they carried them many miles, with scarce little money and one man without the shirt on his back, to ask MEDRIX to sponsor their heart surgery.

Thanks to you, our donors, not one child was turned down, each receiving their surgery in late February and early March.

One boy with a severe heart condition did not make it through his surgery – underscoring the grave nature of these children’s conditions. But MEDRIX is pleased to say that these six boys and girls are on the mend and now have the hope of healthy futures ahead of them.

See the people MEDRIX and the Seattle Pacific University nursing team are meeting in the villages of Nam Dong during their study abroad program. Aside from fellow medical practitioners and patients, the nurses joined in International Women’s Day festivities, celebrated around the world but not so in the US. See where the team’s journey began [...] Read more

IN THEIR month-long study abroad program, the MEDRIX and Seattle Pacific University nursing team has healed the sick, given hope to those without recourse, facilitated healthy futures and met a diverse range of people in a new culture. From Hue City to the villages of Nam Dong, the young women and their mentors have not [...] Read more

MEDRIX is keeping you updated on the most recent stories from Hue Central Hospital, Vietnam, during the Seattle Pacific University study abroad program for nursing students. Yet here are some more visual insights into the nurses’ working environment and their patients – photographs both light-hearted and fragile with the hope that lives may be improved. The nurses’ work in [...] Read more