Mission to Heal

Providing surgical care and training to the developing world. Learn more at missiontoheal.org. 

What does it mean to pledge your birthday?

The concept is simple - ask your friends and family to donate to M2H in lieu of gifts this year. These funds will provide surgical care and training to the developing world, allowing your birthday to have an impact far beyond one day of the year!

Why surgery?

2 billion people worldwide have no access to basic surgical care. And according to the World Health Organization, fully 11% of the global disease burden can be treated with surgery. More die from surgical need than AIDS and malaria and other ailments combined.

Mission to Heal is a nonprofit global medical missions agency that heals underserved people and trains local practitioners in the most remote and needy areas of the world. This work has a sustaining effect and enhances the medical capabilities of clinics in the developing world.

Mission to Heal teams travel to where medical need is great and where medical help is under-resourced or non-existent, providing healthcare that is evidence-based and patient-centered.

Often against a backdrop of civil war, refugee camps, poverty, and indifference. M2H teams operate with limited supplies in order to bring hope to the “bottom billion” of the world.

What are our objectives?

Heal: Provide surgical operations and medical care to those who need it, who have limited or no access to it, and who cannot afford it.

Transform: Inspire medical professionals with the heart and hands to function in needy and poorly-resourced conditions.

Enhance: Train local health workers to successfully manage their community’s medical needs with fewer outside resources to support effective, efficient, and sustainable self-reliance.

What is mobile surgery?

We take the operating room to the patient, delivering essential surgical care in remote areas.

One essential tool is the Mobile Surgical Unit (MSU). The MSU is a different way to deliver surgical care. Instead of taking the patient to the operating room, we take the operating room to the patient, delivering essential surgical care in remote areas of the world where people are too poor or too sick to make the journey to hospitals. Such surgical care is also more humane: patients remain in their own community, sparing them the trauma and expense of leaving home, traveling with difficulty, and being separated from families and friends.