Surgical team early morning trek on the dusty road to Kabala hospital for 8:00 a.m. OR start time
Morning mist settling over over agricultural town of Kabala.
MISSION SUPPLIES AND PREPARATION
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ISHI team at Newark International Airport organizing 18 boxes of medical supplies and surgical equipment. Baggage fees to transport these materials abroad have become exorbitant with recent changes in airline policies.
ISHI team transformed an empty operating room into a busy OR Suite where 2 cases could be done in tandem. The team averaged more than 12 cases per day including emergency unscheduled cases.
OUR PATIENTS AND LOCATION
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The majority of elective cases were done under spinal anesthesia. Pictured above is placement of a spinal needle in a muscular thin patient .
Patients seated outside awaiting triage. Some patients arrived at daybreak waiting 6-7 hours to be seen by a surgeon; many traveled greater than 50 kilometers after hearing radio announcements of our arrival.
MISSION VOLUNTEERS:
The ISHI team was constituted of a group of 13 volunteers, financing their airfare and some accommodation cost. The team traveled to Kabala in Sierra Leone and operated at the Kabala Governmental Hospital for one week.
Stephanie Burroughs, RN Benjamin John Chandler, MD Marina Dianne Goldman, NP Leah Holt Grange, CRNA Vishnu Hoff, Photographer Charlie Khoury, Photographer-Logistics Anastasia Kunac, MD David Livingston, MD Debbie Livingston, Artist Vely A. Louis, MD Ziad C. Sifri, MD Tamara Virginia Uhler, RN Zeina Wakim, Logistics.
