[caption id="attachment_37" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="With some of the staff and interns at Konbit Sante"]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_39" align="alignright" width="150" caption="with staff of For Haiti With Love burn clinic"]
[/caption]This week, they will be spending some of their time with The Haiti Mission team which is doing clinics this week, and helping to try to place the Network's first biodigester at Dr. Ford's orphanage, and later in the week with Tom Larkin of Haiti Marycare, who is coming to work on receipt of a container. They will be working in coming weeks with introducing solar cookers to the food vendors of New Hope for Haiti and checking on the solar lights that have been distributed at Nativity Village. Ralph will hopefully get a chance to visit Dr. Woodard's new project in Gonaives. The Team will be helping to spread the word of, and submit cases for, our new telemedicine service with the Swinsen Charitable Trust (see the links section of our Yahoo group website for more info).
In August, we hope to be receiving 2 interns from the US on their first visits to Haiti and the Team will get to participate in an important gathering organized by Ilio Durandis and Haiti2015. At the end of that month, we hope to get a chance for the Team to work with the special vasectomy mission team from NSVI that is coming to Cange, Ounaminthe, and, we hope, Cap Haitien.
The Team is also hoping to receive it's vehicle as soon as this week (and get hopefully not too much valuable experience dealing with customs on its release!)
I am looking forward to everyone having the chance to share in the Team's experiences in as close to real time as possible, when each member finally is able to "break in" to this blog!
Any members of the Network who want to contact the Team can call them at 3441-1546 or email Ralph (western region liason) at ralphlouis32@yahoo.com, Juline (eastern region liason) at juline08@hotmail.com, or our intern, Joseph, at jorgen235@yahoo.com
Have a great week, Ted
Ted Kaplan, MD for the Cap Haitien Health Network
2 comments:
Will the Vasectomy team also provide Vasectomy Reversal for the 10% that get PVPS?
I read your website and am sorry to hear you had so much difficulty with your vasectomy and got Post Vasectomy Pain Syndrome and needed a reversal. Dr. Stein, who is leading this effort with Haitian surgeon, Dr. Lolagne, specializes in vasectomies and has done more than 20,000. Having seen him do 8-10 vasectomies in 3 hours with a no needle and no scalpel technique, I am confident he would not have had as much trouble findng your vas or taken as long to complete your procedure, and his risk of PVPS is 1 in 2000. So we are bringing the very best at this to people who desperately need help with runaway population growth contributing to the most abject poverty in the western hemisphere. If the patients do have issues, Dr. Lolagne is available to them in Haiti, and Dr. Stein will be returning as well. If you want further information about the vasectomy mission you can check www.nsvi.org and for Dr. Stein's vasectomy service, www.vasweb.com.
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