If you see someone struggling, you jump in and help,” Droskoski said. “There are no boundaries, work is work, you just dive in with a shovel. He said not only will the citizens of Ladyville have better access to healthcare, the participants will gain more experience in their craft and they will learn the true value of international partnership. “We all work together, we are on the same team,” said Droskoski.ĭroskoski welcomes the challenge of working with a multinational task force and says that it not only will make the village of Ladyville better but will makes the participants of BTH 2017 better. Army Reserve, Belize Defense Force, and the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment. William Droskoski, an engineer with the 672nd Engineer Company from Missoula, Montana, explained the Task Force working on the project at the Ladyville Health Center consist of engineers from the U.S. Southern Command that will provide three free medical service events and five construction projects throughout the Belize. BTH 17 is a partnership exercise between the Government of Belize and U.S. They smile as they peer onto the adjacent lot, where soldiers are working away on the latest addition to the clinic provided as part of Beyond the Horizon 2017. The Clinic is too small to serve the people of Ladyville, it is one of the largest villages in Belize, explains Dawson.ĭawson and others smile as they look on from the porch, and they chat over the sound of heavy equipment moving dirt and rock. “We only have one doctor, and even if we see all the patients then there are no beds for them to stay.”

“Some days, we are packed with patients, there is nowhere to put them,” said Kevin Dawson, Ladyville Clinic Head Nurse. It sits just across the road from the bus stop that brings in patients from to and from town, and across from the fruit and water stand that will keep its patients fed and hydrated while waiting to be seen by the clinic's only doctor. On a side road off the main highway, just a few miles north of Belize City sits the Ladyville Health Center.

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