Scrubs, gowns, medical supplies, and school supplies needed for Medical Mission Trip to Ghana, Project Okurase

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Event date: July
URL/web site: projectokurase.org
Broadcast date: 2012-06-25
Contact: Sarah Logan or Cynthia Swenson 843-693-2233 logans@musc.edu

Message:

Dear Faculty, staff, and students, ?Several faculty members, residence, nurses, students and others will soon be traveling to the remote village of Okurase in Ghana for a village health outreach to work with local Ghanaian nurses and physicians to address the primary health goals of the village, including malaria testing and treatment, goiter, hydrocele, and vision problems.

This remote village is home to 2,500 people, of whom 1,400 are children. This village has no clean water, lack of proper sanitation, limited medical care or educational opportunities, malnutrition, and food security issues. (See Photo Exhibit on 2nd floor of library).

You can find donation boxes in the basic science building, the library, the main and children's hospital lobbies, the wellness center, the Cannon Street building, Ashley River Towers lobby, McClennen Banks 1st floor, or Harborview Towers.

Please consider donating any of the following non-expired supplies:

-Scrubs, hospital or exam gowns

-Surgical tools

-Otoscopes

-Ophthalmoscopes

-Stethoscopes

-Skin calipers

-Scales

-Glucometers and glucose strips

Or if you prefer to make a tax deductible monetary donation to help us to buy medication in Ghana by contacting Dr. Cynthia Swenson, MUSC Department of Psychiatry, 4th floor, McClennen Banks, 843-876-1802

Or mail to:

PROJECT OKURASE

2449 Beacon Street

North Charleston, SC 29405?

We will be focusing on:
1) The Village Health Outreach (VHO), screening, treatment and surgeries (saw 1350 people in 2011).
2) The Kid's camp which will include teaching English, other educational activities, soccer (football) and songs with the kids.
3) Piloting telemedicine for health consults
4) Piloting the use of technology for students to be teaching between US and village classrooms.
5) Collecting information for the web site and PR materials i.e. recording audio to go with the brick making and building of the education building.
6) Collecting information for the background of grant applications (health, nutrition, sanitation, water)
7) Helping with building of the educational center, the Nkabom Centre
8) Health education to be shared with people while they are waiting to be seen.
9) Partnering with Water Missions International. Two WMI consultants will join us there.
10) Being sensitive to the culture and religion of all the people in the village.