Through my health care contacts,
we are constantly assessing the needs of hospitals
and clinics in order to provide the most useful
medical equipment and instruments.
On Monday the 7th of february we
donated a heart monitor and essential medicines
to Kalmnai hospital. The heart monitor if brand
new will be worth about US $12,000. 00. We are greatful
to Connelia Santschi who made arrangmats to obtain
the Monitor form the USA. We are corrently preparing
some other medical equpment to be donated to hospitals
in costal reagions.
Kalmunai hospital is the one you
might have heard of a baby who was claimed by eight
mothers. The news was on CNN, finally they had to
do a blood test to determine who is the rightful
mother. And also this hospital has collected over
five hundred bodies after the tsunami and continues
to need more help.
We will continue to visit hospitals
and look for their needs in devastated regions.
Once the medical director of Kalmunai hospital informed
us that eye infections and ear infections were spreading
and respiratory illnesses are beginning to appear
in large numbers in Kalmunai area these days. He
requested us to help with essential medicines for
such health problems.
Triple Gem Camp also reported the
spread of eye infections and we directed a doctor
to the camp. We prepared many boxes of medicine
and transported them to Kalmunai hospital and the
refugee camp on Monday.
As government dry rations are not
enough to meet the desperate need, we are trying
to set up a program to provide a nutritional meal
powder supplement to the affected children on an
ongoing basis.
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