St. Andrew's Children's Clinic

For 40 years, St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic has provided free, specialized medical care to children living in Mexico who cannot get the care or afford the care they need in their home country. The Clinic is held at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Nogales, Arizona.

St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic, a non-denominational, non-profit organization, has a volunteer professional health care staff. The staff sees approximately 200-250 children the first Thursday of each month except July. Every October, in cooperation with Children’s Surgery International and CIMA Hospital, approximately 45 children have cleft palate/cleft lip surgery in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. This special mission involves volunteers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border who work with the medical team to give patients smiles and a much better life.

In 2012, with the help of generous donors and volunteers, St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic provided the following:

3,329 Clinic visits by volunteer health care professionals
4,800 Clinic hours by other volunteers
2,327 patient visits
173 first-time patients to The Clinic
105 office visits (U.S. and Mexico)
123 lab tests (U.S. and Mexico)
44 cleft palate/cleft lip surgeries
270 professional health volunteer hours for cleft palate/lip surgeries
43 orthopedic surgeries
2 retina surgeries
2 corneal transplants
1 prosthetic eye
101 pairs of eye glasses dispensed
29 round-trip flights to hospitals for patients
49 prostheses
57 orthotics
213 pairs of corrective shoes
62 repaired hearing aids
30 customized wheel chairs, walkers, and strollers
18 prescriptions, either for cornea transplants or dermatology patients
Also, medicated eye drops; Braille writers; strollers; speech and language equipment; nutritional supplements; physical, occupational, and speech therapy; dermatology and cardiology consultations; and many generous donations of clothing and toys

We are very proud to report to you that 98% of all donations goes to direct patient care.

Above are sisters, Fernanda, age 8, & Diana, age 5. Both are patients in the Vision Department where they get free eye glasses once year if needed.

Luís Miguel was born with a Cleft Palate and Cleft Lip. He has had several surgeries at our Annual Cleft Palate/Cleft Lip Mission in Hermosillo. Now he can pronounce his sounds very well. He is a patient in the Speech & Language Therapy Department.