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. 

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