• About Us

    Based in New York City, Healing Hands Abroad is a multi-disciplinary group of volunteer medical professionals.  We share a common interest: providing specialized surgical care to the underprivileged communities of the world. Founder and President Dr. Michael J. Lacqua initially traveled to Central America to provide plastic surgical care to patients of the Cayo District Continue Reading

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  • San Ignacio, Belize January 2025

    This is 8 month old Brielle Hanson and her mother Tracey from Belmopan, Belize. Brielle was born with cleft palate, which is an opening in the roof of her mouth that makes it very difficult to eat and speak normally. There are no surgeons in Belize able to perform the surgery needed to correct this. Continue Reading

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  • San Ignacio, Belize February 2024

      This is Roseannette McCoy, a 15 year old from Benque who suffered a burn on her hand a while back that resulted in a scar. She underwent excisional revision and couldn’t be happier!       This is 3 year old Harmony from San Ignacio. She suffers from congenital ptosis (droopiness) of her right Continue Reading

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  • San Ignacio, Belize November 2019

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    Healing Hands Abroad was established to address the prevalent issue of people in desperate need of specialized surgical care. Jesse is a perfect example of the type of patient we see repeatedly. We met Jesse through the staff of the Good Shepard Clinic about 7 years ago in the small village of Succotz in Western Continue Reading

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Arizona Pain Foundation

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