ESPRAS SHARE http://www.esprasshare.org humanitarian aid by European plastic surgeons Tue, 25 May 2010 11:31:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Request for help in the Republic of Kongo http://www.esprasshare.org/2010/05/19/request-for-help-in-the-rep-of-kongo/ http://www.esprasshare.org/2010/05/19/request-for-help-in-the-rep-of-kongo/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 10:35:48 +0000 admin http://www.esprasshare.org/?p=336 Dear Colleagues,

I got a request for help in the . Médecins Sans Frontières in Switzerland (MSF-CH) is involved in a hospital project Dungo in Northkongo. Now they are confronted with many patients suffering from severe face injuries due to terror attacs of the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) from Uganda. They are looking for specialists who are able to handle these severe defects. Lips, nose and ears were cut by soldiers and secundary woundhealing leads to horrible disfigurement. Please see the attached fotos.

MSF-CH wants us to support their efforts to operate on these patients. They are searching for a small team with one plastic surgeon, anaesthesist and nurse who are willing to cooperate with the general surgeon and staff from MSF in that District Hospital.

Hoping to find some enthusiastic specialists !

With best regards
Yours André Borsche

Please contact directly :

Matthias Kuge
Medical Department
Médecins Sans Frontières

Phones: Geneva Office    +41 (0)22 849 89 42
E-Mail:   matthias.kuge{@}geneva.msf.org

And inform me about your planned activities :

Dr.André Borsche
ESPRAS-SHARE secretary general

E-Mail:   borsche{@}interplast-germany.de

]]> http://www.esprasshare.org/2010/05/19/request-for-help-in-the-rep-of-kongo/feed/ 1 A european surgical bridge to Haiti http://www.esprasshare.org/2010/05/19/a-european-surgical-bridge-to-haiti/ http://www.esprasshare.org/2010/05/19/a-european-surgical-bridge-to-haiti/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 09:02:56 +0000 admin http://www.esprasshare.org/?p=320 Last January one of the most terrible earthquake since many years destroyed a big part of Port au prince and suburbs in . Over 300 000 deaths and at least the same amount of wounded people…

ESPRAS SHARE ( Humanitarian Aid Resources Europe), our humanitarian section (involving 15 NGOs) immediately decided to participate to the emergency care . 15 teams , mainly in plastic reconstructive surgery, but also gynaecology, orthopedics, rehabilitation, have been involved in this solidarity effort, coming  from France, Germany, Holland, Italy, mostly from the Interplast and HumaniTerra groups, with a 10 days turn over each. Some of them have treated over 100 patients during their stay on the Island… good deal compared to the very bad conditions in which they had to operate and live…

Now, after this acute period, comes the reconstruction step. SHARE will be there again. We have signed a “Memorandum Of Understanding” with the ministry of health Alex Larsen, in order to reconstruct (and provide training) the Nurse faculty, that was completely destroyed, leaving 150 young student nurses dead under the stones…

An other project, signed by the minister with us, is the rehabilitation of the ancient ICU department of the university hospital (HUEH) into a plastic reconstructive and burn surgery department and the reorganization of the operating theatres of the public hospital. This will allow us to operate in much better conditions…

New teams are ready to leave soon in order to continue this marvellous … this is the way ESPRAS and the plastic surgeons can help and show their generosity and solidarity to the Haitian people…

If you want to help, to participate, or to give money … do not hesitate to contact us

Don’t forget them…

C. Echinard, chairman, ESPRAS SHARE

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