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The Costly Impact of Diabetes: María Needs Our Help

Dear DGH Friends,

María Santos Rosalía Luna lives with her daughters and grandchildren in a mountainside village called Colón.

Our Emergency Medical Assistance Fund has been established for the care of high-risk patients like María.

She has long suffered from the impacts of diabetes, including hair loss, unusual thirst, and loss of sensation in her legs which ultimately led to an entire leg amputation.

Managing her diabetes has proven too expensive for her. Her diabetes remains uncontrolled, and she is treated with limited medications available in a restricted setting.

The Emergency Medical Assistance Fund will help high-risk patients like María. As part of our long-standing commitment to community accompaniment, it is critical that we act now.

Please help María and others like her. And please help now. Your contribution will help save lives and restore smiles.

You can also send checks to:
Doctors for Global Health
P. O. Box 1761
Decatur, GA 30031 U.S.A.

Our non-profit, tax-exempt ID number is EIN: 58-2194069

About Doctors For Global Health and its Global Health Initiatives

Doctors for Global Health is comprised of hundreds of health professionals, students, educators, artists, attorneys, engineers, retirees, and others. Together, we build long-term relationships between people and communities around the world to find effective solutions to social justice issues.

DGH has a unique way of carrying out its mission and global health initiatives, focusing on helping to make underserved communities healthy in the broadest definition possible. DGH supports community-oriented projects, including primary care, health education, vaccination campaigns, childhood nutrition programs, physical rehabilitation programs, and more in the communities where it works. DGH believes in and promotes human rights as a fundamental component of health, which is critical for to self-determination. In addition, DGH believes education is essential to a community’s health, as is economic well-being and environmental safety.

Furthermore, DGH interweaves the arts into its work, believing the soul needs nourishing as much as the body. DGH works closely with the communities that it accompanies in participatory investigation: being invited by the community, working with it to explore its strengths and weaknesses in health, establishing priorities toward better health, developing initiatives to address the chosen priorities, and evaluating their success. DGH works side-by-side with community members as partners rather than clients or victims. Doctors for Global Health sees empowering and walking with communities as key to global health initiatives.

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