Dr. Russell Cross of CNH began his global health work when he decided to accompany Dr. Craig Sable on a trip to Bolivia to provide clinical cardiac care. On this first trip to Bolivia, the objective was “to determine the feasibility and the openness of the government and (local) providers to US providers coming in and providing care as well as working to advance the current care standards available,” recalls Dr. Cross. While Bolivia has a reasonable infrastructure capacity for treating patients with heart disease, there were only six cardiologists in the whole country, and “while they have a lot to offer, it was really only offered to people who could pay for it,” adds Dr. Cross. Travelling twice to Bolivia with Dr. Sable, Dr. Cross remembers the experience as very educational, but regrettably “the group wasn’t really able to do anything further” as a result of pushback from the Bolivian government.
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