WMP Provides Cholera, Ebola and EMS Capacity Building to Sierra Leone
Boot Out Ebola (2014)
A Charity Golf Tournament held Monday, September 22, 2014 raised $12,250 for Sierra Leone Ebola Clinic. We want to personally thank each and every golfer, sponsor, and donor for helping us reach this wonderful goal. 100% of your donation is benefitting the fight against Ebola.
"BOOT OUT EBOLA" SPONSORS:
“Big Kicker”
Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Flowers
“Slam Dunker”
Kathleen Thorney
“Boot Scooters”
American Tank & Vessel & W.T. Cutts
Rick & Janice Gornto
Dr. Mahmood Dweik &
Acorn Builders
“Strikers”
Clear Lake Regional Medical Center & Stephen Jones, CEO
Dr. Bahaeddin Shabaneh
CHI Energy Services
Dr. Earl Miller
Excalibur Partners, L.L.C.
Wendie Kellington, Attny P.C.
Heart Physicians of Clear Lake: Dr. Kumar & Dr. Ali
View Fox News coverage of the event.
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Donations Made to Women's Center in Kono, Koidu (2013)
SUCCESS! World Missions Possible recently shipped a 20-foot container packed with equipment and medications, including an ultrasound, x-ray unit, two defibrillators, 220 spinal anesthesia trays and more to the Sierra Leone Ebola Clinic. Thanks to Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, American Tank and Vessel and Heart to Heart International, the clinic gets to keep the container for use as a medical storage unit. With a generous donation from Doresey Kastetter, we were also able to purchase a brand-new Welch Allyn video colposcope (valued at $9,000) for cervical cancer screenings at the soon-to-open Women's Center in Kono.
$20k Donation Received for Sierra Leone Medical Outreach (2012 & 2013)
A special thank you to Clear Lake Regional Medical Center's Executive Committee, which recently donated $20,000 to World Missions Possible's Sierra Leone 2012 & 2013 Medical Outreach.
The funds contributed by the Medical Executive Committee will be used for an upcoming trip to Sierra Leone, West Africa. With a population of approximately 6 million, Sierra Leone endured an 11-year civil war that resulted in the mutilation of thousands of men, women and children by Rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in an attempt to terrify people into supporting the rebels.
"This wonderful donation from the CLRMC medical staff is critical in helping us bring life-saving care to this healing nation. The staff's generous funding will bring in medication and personnel to combat the current deadly Cholera epidemic that has killed 200 and sickened over 12,000 people already," said Roxane Richter, WMP President.
The medical team of World Missions Possible will be providing numerous services on the trip to Sierra Leone this year, including medication , equipment and treatment for Cholera victims, as well as the critical training of medical staff in adult and pediatric resuscitation and life support, ultrasound and trauma care training, and free vision care.
Dr. Thomas Flowers, the organization’s Medical Director, added that the donation from the medical staff would be used to purchase supplies like antibiotics, surgical instruments, splinting material, sterilization containers, medications, laryngoscopes, intubation sets, vital sign monitors and much more.
$5k Donation Received for Sierra Leone Medical Outreach From Greater Houston Emergency Physicians Group (GHEP)
(2012 & 2013)
A special thank you to Greater Houston Emergency Physicians Group (GHEP), which recently donated $5,000 to World Missions Possible's Sierra Leone 2012 & 2013 Medical Outreach. Read more about this donation in the full press release.
Sierra Leone Medical Outreach Update
(2011)
As you see from the attached photos, we were busy working with three facilities: The Jennifer Wright Pediatric Clinic (serves 2,000+ patients per month in Freetown); Wellbodi Amputee Clinic (serves 2,500+ patients per month in Kono) and the 300-bed Koidu Government Hospital (Koidu). The pediatric clinic is located in the capital city, which has been the hardest hit region for Cholera, with many people flocking to the clinic with diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms of Cholera. The western area of the country where the capital city of Freetown is located has been the most affected location with more than 50% of total cases. This year has been the worst epidemic in their 15-year history with agencies reporting 392 deaths and 25,000 confirmed cases since Feb. of 2012 in Sierra Leone and neighboring Guinea. Twelve of the 13 districts in Sierra Leone have been affected since the beginning of the year.
Aside from our Cholera outreach,over 750 pounds of medications, supplies and equipment, including an ultrasound, 2 vascular dopplers, surgical instrumentation, splints, an enteral feeding pump, etc., etc…-- as well as hundreds of IV catheters, 900 packets of Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) and 8,000+ doses of Azithromycin and Doxycycline for fighting Cholera. I did forward you a complete list of our donations of equipment & supplies via email. We also brought new cables and were able to repair the clinic’s EKG and vital signs (that WMP donated in 2011). The WMP team also provided 300 patients with free eye care includingcorrecting refractive errors of hyperopia, myopia and presbyopia. During the clinics, patients were offered the assessment and free medication, treatment or referral of cataracts, pterygiums, corneal ulcers, glacoma, etc., as well as free prescription eyeglasses.
As for training, WMP trained both Koidu and Kono healthcare staffs on ultrasound (OB/GYN and trauma assessment) usage, intubation, Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), pediatric S.T.A.B.L.E. ( a neonatal education program that focuses exclusively on the post-resuscitation/pre-transport stabilization care of sick infants) and CPR. The medical team director, Dr. Thomas Flowers had one live interview about healthcare and our free medical outreach on the national Sierra Leone Broadcast Corp. (SLBC) radio, the only national radio station.