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Pittsburgh Marathon

Written on April 7, 2014

Be a runner or virtual runner in the Pittsburgh Marathon and support Surgicorps!

Follow this link — http://www.crowdrise.com/surgicorps2014pghmarathon/fundraiser/surgicorpsinternatio — to learn more. Donations of all amounts are appreciated and if you donate $50 or more, you will receive a receive a Surgicorps running tank! Contributions are accepted until the day of the race — May 4th — BUT if you would like the jersey for the marathon, please donate before April 11, 2014.

For more information, Olivia Cimba at oliviamcc@me.com.

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Bhutan

Written on April 7, 2014

Introducing the 2014 Surgicorps International Bhutan Team

Surgicorps’ 8th mission to Bhutan departs on Friday, April 25th. This year’s team includes 24 volunteers including  10 with previous experience in Bhutan, 5 veterans of other Surgicorps trips and 9 taking their first trip with Surgicorps. Dr. Willie Manteris will once again take his dental services beyond Paro helping to expand Surgicorps’ impact by hundreds.

 

Safe Travels and a Successful Mission!

 

Neal Armagost

Thanh Armagost

Cliff Bierman

Laura Holman Byrne

Diane Crossett

Jack Demos

Linda Esposto

Paul Kim

Kathy Kim

Prema Krishnamurthy

John Lagnese

Peg Lagnese

Sheryl Lamb

Tiffany Lonchera

Willie Manteris

Etsuro Motoyama

Naomi Quillopa

Ann Kelly Regan

Warren Schubert

Kristen Schneider

Modupe Sonuyi

Betsy Utterback

Judy van Beuren

Karen Thurman

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bhutan

Surgicorps Medical Youth Leadership Committee Announces Scholarship

Written on January 25, 2014

The Surgicorps Medical Youth Leadership (SMYL) Committee, recognizing both the inspirational value and the financial challenge of overseas medical service trips for students in the medical fields, seeks to assist those students with a genuine interest in third world medicine, through the Surgicorps Student Scholarship which offers $1,000 toward trip costs.
For more information — visit Volunteer.

Filed Under: News

Zambia 2013 — Nunsa and Eliza

Written on August 18, 2013

Our thanks to Surgicorps Zambia 2013 Team Members Janice Anderson and Matt O’Connor for collaborating and sharing the stories of Nunsa and Eliza.

NUNSA’S STORY

NUNSA SAMPUO (SURGICORPS #212) is small for seven-years-old. She comes from the rural Zambian village of Sesheke. Sesheke is about a day’s travel from the Beit Cure hospital in Lusaka by public transportation, a trip which Nunsa took with her father, Sampuo Muzungu. We interviewed her on June 20th in the Children’s Ward. It is the beginning of the Zambian winter. Nunsa is wrapped up in blankets, asleep in her bed, and Sampuo sits in a chair beside her. A jacket and a wool hat protect him from the cool breeze in the open air ward. It’s early, and while many patients are still asleep, the ward has a sense of bustle. Some children are playing near Nunsa’s bed, knocking toys and carts against the floor or our chairs. Sampuo is one of the few fathers in the ward; his wife is pregnant and so stayed home.

Read more on Janice’s blog

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Bhutan 2013

Written on May 2, 2013

In the words of Bhutan 2013 Team Member, Dr. Alex Rose

Flying into Paro Airport for the first time is an exhilarating experience. The plane banks along the Himalayan Mountains before gliding to a stop on a narrow landing strip in a small valley that seems to appear out of nowhere. It was my first time in Bhutan, as well as about half of the other team members on this Surgicorps International trip. For others, this was their seventh journey to Paro, Bhutan, where dozens of patients already lined the open halls of the hospital, awaiting our arrival. The transition from hotel to hospital was a quick one and screening began almost immediately. With the help of the Tarayana Foundation, an NGO founded by her Majesty the Queen, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuk, patients received assistance with their transportation costs from the eastern regions of the country, enabling them access to Surgicorps aid.

That first day of screening we saw dozens of children with cleft lips and cleft palates. The majority of these children were born to parents who had no family history of this congenital deformity. Some babies were quite healthy and thriving, despite this deficit. Others were more obviously impacted in their growth from an inability to feed well. The OR schedule was filling up fast with patients whom we could really help in the days following. [Read more…] about Bhutan 2013

Filed Under: News

Myanmar-2013

Written on March 25, 2013

A First for Surgicorps and a New Future for Ms. Huang Toe Toe
Mandalay, Myanmar
Story by Surgicorps volunteer Mario Guiterrez

It all started with a casual conversation over dinner during last year’s surgical mission to Paro, Bhutan between Surgicorps founder Dr. Jack Demos and one of the team’s surgeons, Debra Johnson. Dr. Johnson had, for more than twelve years, led volunteer surgical missions to Myanmar (formerly Burma). However, these missions sadly came to an end in 2002 due to lack of organizational funding support and increased political tensions between the US and Myanmar. All it took was for Dr. Jack to ask, “Any chance you think we can initiate a Surgicorps mission there?” for Debra to send off a flurry of emails to her contacts in Mandalay, Myanmar to explore the possibilities.

As a young resident Dr. Nu Nu Yee, had been mentored by Dr. Johnson during her many visits to Yangon (the Capital) General Hospital. Now Dr. Yee was the Chief of Plastic Surgery at Mandalay General Hospital. Upon hearing of Surgicorps and Dr. Johnson’s desire to work at her hospital, Dr. Yee and our Executive Director Linda Esposto worked diligently together to obtain all the necessary approvals from the Ministry of Health and secure the visas for the team. Finally, with all in place, the inaugural Surgicorps volunteer mission was set for February, 2013.

Myanmar is a fairly large, and relatively poor country that until recently had been isolated from the rest of the world. It has a population of 65 million — but with only five surgeons trained in plastic reconstructive surgery. Consequently, the number of children born with congenital defects such as cleft lip and palate, have greatly outstripped the capacity of Dr. Nu Nu Yee and her colleagues in Yangon to meet the overwhelming demand for care. The Surgicorps Mandalay team, was led by Dr. Jack Demos, and included two other surgeons Dr. Johnson and Dr. David Kim from Boston. On the first day clinic the team screened over 100 children and young adults who were in need of surgery And, while they included the usual array of cleft lip, palates, and burn contractures, there was one young lady that stood out from the rest.

[Read more…] about Myanmar-2013

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