CROSS CULTURAL CARE

Cross Cultural Care (C3) is an international non government organization (NGO) that pairs western health care providers with medical staff in areas of the developing world to assist with medical training and health capacity building.Cross Cultural Care (C3) was founded by Dr. Robert Montana, an American Emergency Medicine physician who decided to create such a program while volunteering in North India. He saw the value of training, mentoring, and encouraging growth of skills as more effective strategy to toward lasting change and improved health care access in places such as his India clinic site, where staff clearly needed education and support to improve their practice and empower them to save the lives of their own people.Over the next two years, Dr. Montana has created such capacity building pairing opportunities in India and also in Liberia, West Africa. Liberia emerged from 14 years of civil war in 2002. The country's infrastructure and human resources had been decimated; there were less than 50 trained doctors to address staggering health care needs for a population of over 3.5 million.