By Leila Hawken | Executive Assistant
Just this past week-end, a Catheterization Lab, donated by the manufacturer, Philips Medical, arrived at our Pediatric Heart Center in Nicaragua. The photos tell the story. We gratefully celebrate this new arrival at our hospital. Over the next two weeks, the bundles will be unpacked and the unit installed in the room which has been prepared for it.
The new Heart Center continues to attract patients. As it is a public hospital, care is open to even the poorest families whose children are suffering from a variety of heart ailments and malformities. This is where our friends at Global Giving come in. The Global Giving community is particularly attuned to the needs of the world's disadvantaged people. Our Global Giving friends have been with us throughout the project which is by no means completed. More needs to be done.
We need help with continued training of the local medical staff. One of our doctor friends has volunteered to travel to the Heart Center in May to assess what training courses would be most needed and helpful, and in what order. We are continuing work in equipping and supplying the new Center. We need your help with donations, no matter how modest. Small donations join with larger ones.
One of our early patients, Holman, now 18 years of age, was brought to the Heart Center yesterday by his mother, as he was suffering from convulsions. That required a bus ride from their home village to Managua, but they made it and received the medications necessary to calm the convulsions. When they arrived at the Heart Center, they were happy to find that coincidentally, our Nicaragua Program Director, Philippe Lerch, was there with a member of our Board of Directors, Judith O'Neill, both of whom helped to allay fears. Holman will see a specialist there in the coming week to determine what is needed, we hope just a change in medication.
Through Global Giving, we and you have made a tremendous difference to these kids and their families. Please direct a contribution our way, knowing that it will be put to good use. What better way to celebrate Mother's Day than to help children gain access to life-altering care? A single donation helps us to purchase those things that are so necessary; a recurring donation will strengthen the giving power by allowing us to plan knowing that it will be there for us.
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