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What We Have Done Already



At Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (now Edward W Sparrow Teaching Hospital):

Provided Heavy-duty air conditioner –Accident & Emergency Department (A&E)

High-quality ceiling fan – A&E

New lighting throughout the department –A&E

X-ray view box installed – A&E

Spearheaded installation of extractor fans –A&E

Provided 400 sets of reading glasses – eye clinic (thanks, Whip and Mrs. Whip!)

Surgical supplies and equipment – Major Theatre

Stethoscopes and BP cuffs to nurses

1750 blood sugar test strips donated (thank you, Randy!!)

Dressings and other supplies for the surgery.

Farafenni Hospital:

Donated Dr. Levine's Nikon binocular microscope

Donated 94 pair of reading glasses

Illiassa Clinic:

Installed plumbing with washbasins, toilets, showers, etc. in five buildings of the facility

Window screening to keep out flies and mosquitoes

Supplied a nebulizer machine and medication to treat asthma patients

Refurbished the staff quarters building and dug a new privy

Noo Kunda Clinic:

Constructed new outpatient building

Provided for a solar lighting unit supplied by We Care Solar

Arranged for furniture, equipment and supplies

Howard Dalton Memorial Clinic at Jappineh:

Funded window screening to keep out flies and mosquitoes

Saaba Clinic

New roof

Sintet Clinic

Dug a well with electrical water pump, constructed a large water-tower, installed solar panels to power the water pump. The system is already in use and only awaits hook-up for them to have water inside the clinic itself.

Provided nebulizer machine and medication to treat asthmatics

Provided hospital uniforms and medical supplies

Bought a new, heavy-duty inverter for the new solar electrical system WAME installed

Kunkujang Clinic

Donated new toilet for their new clinic

Brickama  Health Center

Coordinated delivery of container of medical supplies from the US

Supervised unloading of same

Facilitated delivery of both educational and medical supplies targeted to other facilities

Hopital de Kafountine, Kafountine, Senegal

Purchased a state-of-the-art blood chemistry machine (spectrophotometer) for their lab.

Helped finance a new top-of-the-line solar pump for the hospital water system
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Donated surgical items to their minor surgery.

Supplied a 2.5 Kw generator.

Installed window screening and built screen doors to keep out mosquitoes and cut down on malaria

Extensive roof repairs on two buildings
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Hopital de Diouloulou, Diouloulou, Senegal

Supplied a 2.5 Kw generator

Rebuilt the toilet facilities

Educational

Sponsoring needy children for school fees, uniforms, supplies, etc.

Funded tutoring for kids struggling with subjects

Helped individual patients to secure needed medical and surgical care

 

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