Life Giving: Healthy Moms & Babies

My niece just posted on Facebook a photo of her and her partner holding an ultrasound photo of their new baby.

Ultrasound is a wonderful way to see your new one, but more importantly it is a marvelous tool for doctors.

Physicians can diagnose a high-risk pregnancy and see what is happening in utero with a growing fetus.  They can see blood clots, tumors, kidney stones, gall stones, cysts, and what is happening to organs.

It is a marvelous, safe diagnostic tool that has saved so many lives.

Dr. Jorge Flores is our radiologist and for a year-and-a-half we had no ultrasound machine for him to use because the two that we’d had previously were irreparably broken.  We now have another used one, but we have to order the expensive paper from the United States, and because the machine is worn, Dr. Flores has to manipulate the probes “just right” to get his reading.

However, in spite of the kinks, he shows new mothers their babies.  He reads and gives diagnoses of what he sees to aid our doctors, and for referring physicians to know.  He also sends patients to the hospital when he sees something that needs immediate surgery.  He saves lives.

We are thrilled to be able to offer this service once again, and we hope by the end of 2020 we will have a working x-ray in place, and finished radiology rooms, to expand the Nueva Vida Clinic’s services of diagnostic tools for looking within the human body.

-Kathleen

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