SMA MISSIONS

SMA Missions provides medical and spiritual assistance to children from vulnerable sectors of Mexican society in rural and marginal urban areas. We are establishing no cost Children’s Health Clinics. OUR FIRST CLINIC AND WAREHOUSE, SMA Missions Clinic will be launched in San Miguel de Allende (SMA), MX and then expanding coverage to other under-served locales around the Bajio in Central Mexico. We are also committed to importing critical medical equipment and supplies for Mexican children in peril, loaning some of that equipment to partner organizations including: Hospital Joya, Hospital MAC, the SMA Dialysis Clinic (opening soon), and others are in process.

In a formal agreement with Cheer-Up Missions (a U.S. 501(c)3) as their exclusive missionary partner in Mexico, we will be importing of 2-3 forty-foot shipping containers containing medical supplies and equipment in 2024 and 2025.  We are also working closely with New Orleans Medical Missions Services (NOMMS) to have access to additional medical equipment and supplies to insure availability for the children of Mexico.                                         

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​Outpatient care may include:
1) Pastoral and Lay Counseling with trained local Pastors.
2) Radiological procedures
3) Pediatric Peritoneal Dialysis
4) Pediatric Diabetes Treatment
5) Pediatric Urology
6) Pediatric Ear Nose and Throat
7) Pediatric Orthopedics
8) Pediatric Gastroenterology

​9) Pediatric Gynecology
10) Pediatric Nutrition
11) Alternative Medicine
12) Treatment for Depression
13) Sex Education Counseling (including STD prevention)
14) Substance abuse, and
15) Eating Disorders

HEALTH AT A GLANCE FOR MEXICAN CHILDREN POPULATION
​In Mexico, 56.5% are without health coverage and that coverage declined from 2016 to 2020.

• 32.1 % ages 0-4 years old have respiratory diseases untreated.  
• 11.4% or 8.4 million of ages 20 years and over previously diagnosed with diabetes remain untreated.
• 47.7% of ages 20 and over, previously diagnosed with highly abnormal reports of cholesterol and triglyceride measurement remain untreated.
• 21.7%, aged 10-19 years consume alcohol and are preventative health is unavailable.
• 63.8% aged 20 and over consume alcohol with Men representing 80.6% of the population with 5.7% daily.
• 22.2% aged 0-4 years at risk are overweight which carries over to adulthood.
• At the national level, in 2018, the percentage of overweight adults over 20 years of age climbed from 71.3% to 75.2%.
• 39.1% aged 20 and older are overweight.
• 36.1% aged 20 and older suffer with obesity.​

Trails for Christ is an important Ministry that extends in facility care to remote areas throughout Central Mexico.

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Trails for Christ

What We Do

For further information, we recommend referring to:
Health in the Americas by Basic Indicators, (La salud en las Americas por INDICADORES BÁSICOS), 2022, https://hia.paho.org/es/paises-2022/fuentes
Mexico Health Profile, 2022, https://hia.paho.org/es/paises-2022/perfil-mexico