Coram Deo Haiti Update - December 4, 2016
7 years ago
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Bringing awareness to the tech geeks
Tod and I will be presenting a talk at Notacon 7 on how computer geeks and people with other backgrounds aside from medicine can go do international relief work, using his work in Haiti last October as an example. Please come see us and support Notacon and my continued work in Haiti!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Fundraising efforts to date
I have received $230 in donations. I have refunded $30 in donations due to issues with PayPal donations to entities who are not nonprofits or representing nonprofits. I have a few more donations promised, but not in hand quite yet. I will pay for as much as I can from my own pocket and credit as well, but the exact amount has yet to be decided.
For ~$200 dollars, I can buy 500 tabs of amoxicillin 500mg and 500 tabs of TMP-SMX (bactrim DS) 800/160mg. A typical treatment for an ear infection is amoxicillin 500mg twice daily for 7 days, or 14 tabs. A typical treatment for a urinary tract infection is TMP-SMX twice daily for 3 days, or 6 tabs. For this, I could treat 35 ear infections and 83 urinary infections.
On our busiest day last October, 3 residents and 1 attending saw 323 patients. I presume that 1/4 of those patients were seen by me (since I don't have the exact stats per doc). If I maintain that rate, I'd be out of my $200 of antibiotics in less than 1.5 days. That's for cheap antibiotics.
For ~$200, I could buy 36 tabs of mebendazole 100mg. To treat pinworms, the dosing is only 1 pill one time, so I could treat 36 patients for worms. That's less than 0.5 days of patients.
For ~$200, I could buy 2800 tabs each of ferrous sulfate 325mg and folic acid 1mg. For anemia, 2 weeks of each once a day can potentially make a big difference in the health of one nutritionally deficient Haitian. That's 200 patients, or 2.5 days of patients.
This is just a sample of what I am looking at for the trip to Haiti. I want to bring not only the above medications, but a number of others to treat many things, including asthma, assorted rashes, soft tissue infections, diarrhea, malaria, etc.
For ~$200 dollars, I can buy 500 tabs of amoxicillin 500mg and 500 tabs of TMP-SMX (bactrim DS) 800/160mg. A typical treatment for an ear infection is amoxicillin 500mg twice daily for 7 days, or 14 tabs. A typical treatment for a urinary tract infection is TMP-SMX twice daily for 3 days, or 6 tabs. For this, I could treat 35 ear infections and 83 urinary infections.
On our busiest day last October, 3 residents and 1 attending saw 323 patients. I presume that 1/4 of those patients were seen by me (since I don't have the exact stats per doc). If I maintain that rate, I'd be out of my $200 of antibiotics in less than 1.5 days. That's for cheap antibiotics.
For ~$200, I could buy 36 tabs of mebendazole 100mg. To treat pinworms, the dosing is only 1 pill one time, so I could treat 36 patients for worms. That's less than 0.5 days of patients.
For ~$200, I could buy 2800 tabs each of ferrous sulfate 325mg and folic acid 1mg. For anemia, 2 weeks of each once a day can potentially make a big difference in the health of one nutritionally deficient Haitian. That's 200 patients, or 2.5 days of patients.
This is just a sample of what I am looking at for the trip to Haiti. I want to bring not only the above medications, but a number of others to treat many things, including asthma, assorted rashes, soft tissue infections, diarrhea, malaria, etc.
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