By Marisol Wandiga Valentin | Program Manager
Two more shipments to Santiago de Cuba left the Global Links warehouse the week of Thanksgiving. Our Hurricane Sandy Relief Project continues and we need your support to achieve 5 key objectives by the end of 2015:
These objectives are:
1) Replacing 25% of the adult beds in 6 main hospitals in the province. Providing improved mattresses made of materials that reduce bed sores and with proper linings to lessen infection spread through contaminated surfaces.
2) Increase the number of functioning operating rooms in the 6 main hospitals that are our focus. Many ORs have been rebuilt but need anesthesia machines, OR tables, and other key medical components to before they can open.
3) Improve the basic laboratory microscopes so the province can increase the number of clinical diagnostics it provides on a daily basis.
4) Strengthen the bibliographic material at the province Universidad de Ciencias Medicas which lost key bibliographical books and journals following Hurricane Sandy.
5) Provide dialysis chairs to replace outdated equipment in the dialysis rooms.
With these last two shipments, we were able to accomplish goal #5 by providing Hospital General Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas and Hospital Provincial Saturnino Lora with 18 dialysis chairs, new wheelchair scales, and over 100 boxes of nephrology supplies that will allow the hospitals to improve patient comfort and improve processes. Special thanks to Davita / Bridge of Life Foundation for their support of this project.
We also began work on goal #4 with the shipment of the first batch of books to the Universidad de Ciencias Medicas in Santiago. Books sent focused on neonatal care, gynecology and obstetrics and structural and physical pathology.
Furnishings and supplies were also included to help the main Psychiatric Hospital, Gustavo Machin (which was heavily damaged),update and strengthen its capacity.
Prior shipments have almost completed goal #1. With 13 containers of medical aid (valued at $1,306,062.30) shipped since the start of the project, your support has made a profound and measurable difference in the recovery efforts of all of the hospitals in Santiago.
Can you make a tax-deductible donation at the end of 2014 so we can kick-off 2015 by making progress on goals #2 and #3? We will be closing this project in March of 2015 so we ask that you please consider one last donation to the important and very successful project.
Together we have accomplished so much since the start of this project, let's work together again to make sure it has a strong end. Thank you for your generous support.
Thank you,
Marisol Wandiga Valentin
Global Links Program Manger for the Caribbean Region
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