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Life -Saving Dialysis Machines Donated to Haiti
There are no critical dialysis machines on Haiti but that is about to change
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - FEBRUARY 20: Nurse Chris Welch (L) of Lubbock, Texas, holds a flashlight for Surgical Assistant Seddy Dure of Hollywood, Florida, and Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Christopher Doumas of the Jersey Shore Medical Center while the work to help save a Hatian earthquake victim's leg at the Project MediShare field hospital on the grounds of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport February 20, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. More than a month after a 7.0 earthquake devistated Haiti, Project MediShare is coordinating hundreds of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to aid the vicitims. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Seddy Dure;Christopher Doumas;Chris Welch
As relief efforts brought everything from clothes, food and medicine to help Haitians still reeling from the devastating earthquake that struck the island, doctors still needed one vital tool to keep the injured alive.
Now they have it.
Nine dialysis machines are on their way from Miami to Haiti, which could be the live-saving force for thousands of Haitians still suffering from lost limbs and catastrophic internal injuries.
The machines were donated by a Pennsylvania company to Miami's Project Medishare.
"There has never been an organized effort to provide dialysis in Haiti," Dr. Art Fournier, co-founder of Project Medishare, said. "It has never worked and dialysis machines are desperately needed."
Also aiding in the equipment collection effort was Project Save the World, the charity that raised the funds to located the machines and support Project Medishare's initial set up and operation of them.
Doctors were hoping for one. The charity found nine.
"It came as a pleasant surprise," Brigitte Andrade said. "I started called around hoping to find one machine and then they told me there were 9."
It will be several weeks before the machines are set up, but news of their pending arrival has blown new life into physicians still volunteering on the island nation and their patients who were waiting for a sign of hope.
To make a donation go to projectsavethe world.org or projectmedishare.org.
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