In the Guatemalan jungle, doctors from Ufa have organized the Russian clinic Health&Help. Medical professionals from around the world come to this hospital, which is practically the only chance for indigenous tribes to receive medical assistance. The clinic is located in the mountain village of Chuinachtahuyub.

Victoria Valikova, an infectious disease doctor specializing in tropical diseases, spent three years in Central America, traveling through various cities in Guatemala, where during conflicts she avoided Molotov cocktails and stitched gunshot wounds. Victoria treated patients at the Esperanza clinic on Roatan Island and participated in the cholera epidemic response in Haiti in 2015. Now she has her own hospital, where volunteers from around the world come, sharing the belief that every person has the right to medical care. Together with her friend, 19-year-old Karina Basharova, Victoria opened the hospital with funds raised through crowdfunding.

Life in Guatemala turned out to be unexpectedly expensive. Milk costs over $2, sausage from $9 per kilogram, and exotic products like gherkins range from $5.5 per jar at Walmart, which is more than two hours away by car. Health&Help exists solely on private donations, which amount to about $500 a month. Therefore, Victoria and the volunteers eat modestly: they cannot afford dairy products, fruits, and meat; their diet mainly consists of pasta and rice with vegetables.

Russian doctors are approached with various problems: severe scabies, tick-borne infections, trachoma, herpes outbreaks, and late-stage syphilis. Once, a boy came to Victoria with a swollen eye. His mother complained that he had been sleeping and eating poorly for several weeks, and now his eye was swollen. The swelling under the eye suggested Chagas disease, which is transmitted by a bug. People do not get sick from the bite, but when a person rubs the bug's feces into a wound, becoming infected with a parasite that settles in the heart, esophagus, and large intestine. If the disease is not diagnosed in time, it can lead to death.

Most patients come with flu, gastritis, or high blood pressure. One in four has diabetes, which is related to a diet that includes Coca-Cola and coffee with sugar. Almost all patients are given a little insulin, but its cost in Guatemala is 220 quetzals (about $33) per vial, and the clinic cannot always afford it. Volunteers cannot bring insulin with them, as special refrigerators and documents are needed for transportation.

There is no ambulance here. If a person is choking, they need to be taken to the clinic, and if you don't make it in time, help will no longer be possible.

Victoria and Karina are confident that they need to move forward: they have many plans, energy, desire, and support from people around the world who help the clinic at the edge of the world.