By Jeremy Writt | Development Manager, Remote Area Medical
Remote Area Medical’s program to prevent and treat cervical cancer in Guyana needs your help. As you know, the Guyana Women’s Health Program treats patients in extremely remote villages. Getting to these villages require vehicles that transport the team and all the necessary equipment and medicine to the treatment site. These vehicles must also carry their own fuel as there are no gas stations in the interior. Fitting people, fuel, supplies, medicine, equipment, and food on these vehicles is a difficult task that must be done in order for the team to even have a chance to provide treatment. Equipment that takes up less space is a necessity with life-saving implications.
To achieve this goal, Dr. Jordann Loehr, RAM’s medical lead for this program, has identified an immediate need for a handheld LEEP machine. This portable device would allow the RAM medical team to detect and treat pre-malignant cervical lesions. Patients in these remote villages have a high incidence of cervical cancer. The region’s lack of a screening program contributes to there being a one out of every 100 incidence rate.
This specialized equipment is critical to reducing cervical cancer in the Guyana interior. Each handheld LEEP machine costs $2,500 and would enable the RAM cervical cancer team to more effective and more efficient. Adding one of these hand-held devices makes it easier transport, set-up, use, and store. Please consider donating today so RAM can purchase a handheld LEEP machine for the Guyana Women’s Health Program.
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