Reflections of Volunteer Time at Hospital San Carlos, Altamirano, Chiapas, Mexico By Gilberto Granados

I have had the privilege of providing care in communities similar to the one I grew up in but beyond our borders in countries like Sri Lanka, Greece and India. However, my longest stretch of such work was with Hospital San Carlos, a small hospital set in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state and home to a large concentration of indigenous populations. Introduced to this beautiful place by our friend Dr. Emily Dow, my partner, Dr. Jyoti Puvvula and I worked there from 2001 through 2010. We would work for two weeks at a…

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