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“You are my family now”–Stancia to Michael Lear, RMF Haiti

January 25, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Haiti, Helping Children, Initiatives, Rebuilding Communities by Michael Lear | Comments closed

haiti4Michael Lear, Haiti, Jan 25th 2010

Upon returning from Port-au-Prince, Michael became friends with one of the many victims that experienced tragedies beyond measure: “I went to help with the relocated patients placed on the lawn in front of the post-op ward.   It was there that I met Stancia.  Stancia lost everything – her whole family, her husband, her children and her house.
She lay alone in the Dominican Republic with crushed legs, not knowing how to start over.  Her first words to me are – “I am dead.  I have lost everything, my family, my husband and children and my house.  It is just me and God……..and you.  You are my family now.”

Please help us to provide Stancia with hope and the support to start her life over.

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RMF Haiti UPDATE: Earth Quake Relief, Port-au-Prince

January 25, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Haiti, Helping Children, Providing Medical Support, Rebuilding Communities by Michael Lear | Comments closed

haiti1Earth Quake Relief Port-au-Prince Haiti

January 25, 2010
Michael Lear and Dr. Martina Fuchs

Real Medicine deployed to the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, January 20, and began performing assessments on the Jimaní border hospitals, the Good Samaritan and the Hospital Melenciano, which have been receiving patients from Haiti since last week.

Both facilities have been overloaded as more patients arrive and the demand for post-operative care increases. Patients with pins sticking out of flesh, with amputations, and many children in body casts line every hallway and ground space.haiti2

All of the patients at both hospitals had arrived via ambulance (if lucky enough), or piled in the back of flat bed trucks in numbers as high as 30.  The now congested 30-mile route between Port-au-Prince and Jimaní is taking up to an exhausting three to five hours.

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Real Medicine’s team is headed to Jimaní, the border town most overwhelmed by severely injured Haitians seeking medical help.

January 19, 2010 in Disaster Relief, Donate, Haiti, Helping Children, Initiatives, Providing Medical Support, Rebuilding Communities, Thank You by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

Real Medicine’s team is headed to Jimaní on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

We have identified two hospitals our doctors and nurses are able to work out of. Jimaní is the border town most overwhelmed by severely injured Haitians seeking medical help. Our contacts on the ground are reporting that severely injured patients are arriving in containers, often 30-40 persons in one container. Many of them requiring amputations.

We are accepting more doctors and nurses, especially trauma/ortho surgeons/nurses and anesthesiologists.

We will continue to report from the ground. Thank you for your ongoing support making this possible.

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A Health Fair with Flare and Moms With Really Cute Kids

September 21, 2009 in Rebuilding Communities by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

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Winter Update at RMF Clinic in Pisco, Peru

July 13, 2009 in Rebuilding Communities by Steve Henrichon | Comments closed

Winter has arrived in Pisco, Peru and the clinic team has been busy in the months of May and June.  We have maintained an average of 60 patients per day, with the most common cases being respiratory (46%), parasitic (12%), physical/muscular (10%), digestive (7%), and skin disorders (6%).  As the weather gets colder, we anticipate the percentage of respiratory ailments to increase.  To treat patients with respiratory conditions, we make use of nebulizers, suction unit, oxygen tanks, as well as prescription pharmaceuticals & inhalers accessible from our in-house pharmacy.

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Project Updates on Tangelle, Sri Lanka (Part 3)

April 18, 2007 in Rebuilding Communities by Administrator | Comments closed

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Updates on Tangelle, Sri Lanka (Part 2)

April 16, 2007 in Rebuilding Communities by Administrator | Comments closed

Providing individual help to needy families:

- Renting two homes and employing three families in these homes until they would find a permanent home (LKR 13,500.00 per month).

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- Helping a family to buy a spice grinding mill to originate an income to maintain two children as they were homeless and the father had lost his job (LKR 25,000.00).

- Helping an old grandmother to buy a sewing machine to carry on her life with her orphaned grandchild (LKR 25,000.00).

- Helping a father to buy a bicycle to continue to sell fish for his and his son’s daily living (LKR 6,000.00).

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