A Healthcare Mission to Peru

"According to physician Brian Medernach, Catholic doctors have a responsibility to live out the gospel through their work in health care.

"For Medernach and his wife, Antoinette Lullo, living out the gospel involved traveling to rural Peru, where they lived and worked as physicians at Santa Clotilde, a mission on the Napo River in the very northeast of the country. According to a blog they kept while living there, this involved a 10-hour flight to Lima, followed by a shorter flight to the city of Iquitos, a 45-minute boat ride up the Amazon River, followed by a short taxi ride to another port, where they embarked on the five hour boat ride up the Napo. The mission provides health care for more than 100 villages along a 250-mile stretch of the river."

A recent article in U.S. Catholic reported on this ministry of Dr. Medernach and Dr. Lullo.

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U.S. Catholic: A call to Catholic mission work brought this doctor to Peru