Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Holds First Mass Casualty Incident Moulage Simulation for KNUST ER Nu
Massive Road Traffic Accident Simulated with ‘Patients’ Made Up to Look Injured, Dead Today at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) Moulage Simulation was held to train KNUST ER (4th year) nurses how to triage patients and allocate limited healthcare resources during a large manmade or natural disaster. Approximately 45 KNUST 4th year nurses, 12 emergency physicians, 3 emergency medical technicians/paramedics, and 42 KNUST 3rd year nurses participate
Health and Vision Clinic for Homeless and Indigent
We had 5 licensed optometrists, 3 licensed opticians, 2 MDs, 4 RNs, 1 EMT, 5 UTMB medical students, 15 University of Houston VOSH volunteers and many, many more wonderful volunteers! Many thanks to you all for a successful "I CARE" Vision & Wellness Clinic. We allotted scheduled optometrist appointments to four area organizations, including: Bay Area Turning Point domestic violence shelter , Jess Tree of Galveston County, Crossroads shelter, and CLUMC Celebracion Hispanic Min
Vision and Health Clinic for the Homeless and Indigent
We had 8 wonderful doctors, 2 RNs, 2 optometrists, and 2 other medical volunteers. Additionally, we had many “helping hands” as volunteers, including: Jordie Chalupnik, Kris Wessale, Alberto Williams, Virginia Campbell, Mike Allison, Heather Martin, Merridy Pyer, and Sheila and Stephanie from Celebracion. We served approx. 20 medical clinic patients and 145 eye patients. We had several cases of pterygiums, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma… and as always, lots of undi
Sierra Leone Medical Outreach Update
As you see from the 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 we
