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Ghana Trip with Container Delivery, Janaury 2013

3/1/2013

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During this trip, we were privledged to work in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Tamale Teaching Hospital in Tamale, Ghana where we met pediatrician, Dr. Hasan Mumin, who leads the medical staff in the NICU. Dr. Mumin was trained in Turkey and is currently responsible for the care of the infants in the NICU and the training of medical staff. We rounded with him and his staff each morning during our stay.

Half of the NICU supplies donated went to Tamale Teaching Hospital which included diapers, intravenous tubing and supplies, infant baths, respiratory equipment and a pulse oximeter machine (which follows oxygen levels in a baby to know if additional oxygen is needed).
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After all the donating, collecting, moving and shipping was done, the container arrived safely in Ghana for our arrival this January. The estimated $130,000 in medical supplies and equipment was distributed to the Ghana Health Service with plans for use at Ridge Regional Hospital in Accra and Tamale Teaching Hospital in Tamale.

We would like to thank the physicans and administrators who made this happen, including Dr.
Emmanuel Srofenyoh and Dr. Ken Sagoe as well as those at the Ghana Health Service administrators' office, notably Yaw Brobbey and Bernard Asamany. 

We hope that this is the beginning of multiple containers that will be shipped to Ghana in the years to come.

In fact, we have already started collecting for the next container.  If you have equipment or know a hospital that would like to particpate, please contact us at odaboro@gmail.com

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Babies under much needed single phototherapy light to treat jaundice
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Mike, Laurel, Dr. Hasan Mumin and mecical officer in Tamale Teaching Hospital NICU.
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Mike, Laurel, Dr Mumin and medical team on rounds in NICU
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Tamale Teaching Hospital NICU
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Laurel Bookman and Mike Moyer with the rest of our wonderful Kybele medical team in Tamale. We miss you Andre, Ron and Manny!
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Dr. Emmanuel Srofenyoh (Ridge Regional Hospital administrator and Head of OBGYN) and Mike Moyer (Odaboro Foundation President) with donated medical supplies in Accra
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Tamale Teaching Hospital truck being packed to drive North.
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Mike, Laurel and the drivers for the Tamale truck.
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Midwives at Ridge Hospital with donated scrubs from the Mercy Hospital scrub drive and neonatal resuscitation books donated from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Pediatric Residency program
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Engineers and Mike getting the donated ultrasound machine from Mercy Hospital systems up and running.
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Container has been packed!

12/2/2012

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Our first container has been packed and is ready to go to port in Virginia where it will be sent by ship to Ghana. It should arrive by the time we fly into Ghana at the end of January.  

After countless hours of collecting, planning and packing we realized that we have come into contact with some very generous people, and there are friends and family who we could not have done this without their support.

Boxes loaded: 199
Estimated weight: 7,181 lbs.
Estimated value: $130,000

Thank you to the Sears Family for hosting The 1stAnnual Tiny Warriors Golf Scramble. Thank you to the Mercy Hospital system for their scrub drive and generous medical equipment donation. Thank you to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital employees for collecting and donating medical supplies. Thank you to Kelly Lumber, Mike Coppage and Matt our forklift driver! Special thanks to Carol, Eric, Katrina, Kristin and Todd.
 
Thank you to all who have made generous donations in order to get us here.  Not only do we appreciate your generosity, but the babies in Ghana will shortly be receiving the benefits.

Odaboro Staff


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The party is just getting started.
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Let's hope that the x-ray viewer stays in one piece.
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Here goes the 1st fridge on the container.
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IV poles, anesthesia cart, and portable toilets - all you could ever want.
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The ultrasound was safely loaded thanks to Matt, our forklift driver provided by Kelly Brothers Lumber.
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Scrubs, scrubs and more scrubs
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17 IV poles
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Box 199 - smiles all around
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Backdoor of the container
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The container is closing...
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Scrub a dub dub update:

7/7/2012

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Latest update: Cincinnati area hospitals will be collecting scrubs in bins located near their cafeteria beginning August 1st, 2012.

At this time the following hospitals will be collecting:
1. Mercy Anderson
2. Mercy Clermont
3. Mercy Fairfield
4. Mercy Mount Airy
5. Mercy Western Hills
6. The Jewish Hospital

Please let us know if you would like to add your hospital to those collecting scrubs for disadvantaged hospitals in impoverished nations.

PS. They don't have to fit the babies, just so long as they fit the staff.

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Tiny Warrior Golf Outing

7/7/2012

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Thanks to all 15 teams that participated this past week for the First Annual Tiny Warrior Golf Scramble. It was a great success. Congrats go out to the group lead by Chris Lenhof for their win with 20 under par. Chris has pledged to bring 3 or more teams next year.

More and better pictures to come. Stay tuned...

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Scrub a dub dub, clean up your wardrub, or something like that.

1/30/2012

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I've decided on a campaign for February; Scrubs! Donate your old used scrubs to nurses working for hard for just dollars a day. You know you have too many scrubs. Everyone knows at least one nurse, physician, respiratory therapist... Find me that pair of scrubs you just never wear and feel good that you cleaned up, recycled, donated to a good cause, helped out a nurse that takes care of babies...

I'm paying for a storage facility at the moment, so help me make it worth my while and fill it. Talk to your friends, other nurses or doctors you know, I know, every single one of you can find at least one pair of scrubs someone doesn't want or use any more.

Thanks,
Mike
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