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Hospital Wish List
An Opportunity to Help Those Who Need It the Most!
For
most of us, it is hard to imagine a hospital that doesn't have enough (or any) soap, toilet paper, food or medicine.
Unfortunately, this is daily reality for the children of Dr. Mario Catarino
Rivas Hospital. If you would like to help these children, you will be helping some of the most deserving of people:
sick and malnourished children who come from absolute poverty. Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere and it lacks sufficient
resources to keep it's public hospitals stocked with essential items. If you or your company would like to donate a piece of medical equipment, a plaque of gratitude can be place on the piece
of equipment. Donations can also be made in memory of a loved one. To make a donation, please go to our donation page. Also, please email me to let me know how you want your money to be used.
Hospital Wish List: In October 2010 Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital Noroccidental was treating 836 children a month with cancer, mostly
leukemias and brain cancers. At that point in time, there was a foundation of cancer in Honduras that was buying the chemotherapy
for the kids; in October 2011 this foundation went bankrupt and the hospital lost the capability to buy chemo for the kids.
As of March 2011, the number of cancer cases in children who are being treated by this hospital had rose to approximately
2,000 children a month. The doctors and nurses are projecting that there may be as many as 3,000 to 4,000 children by the
end of the year that need chemo to survive. It cost $1,009 per year to buy chemo for one child. If you would like to donate
money for the purchase of chemo, we can send you a picture of the child you are sponsoring and give you an update on their
health. If this is anything you are interested in participating in, please contact Shawn Plowman at sgbbinsd@aol.com Additional Wish List Items for the Pediatric Ward: 3
months of syringes: $1,000 Soap and Toilet Paper: $250 per month Pediasure: $500 per month Ensure: $250 per month One MAP pack (Medical Assistance Program: www.map.org): $550 One month of snacks: $4,000 Transport
Stretcher: $900 5 Domestic Nebulizers $250 each 2 Medicine Cabinets: $450 each 3 Phototherapy Lamps: $3700 each 4 Portable Oxygen Tanks: $250 each 4 Flowmeters: $250 each 2 Oxygen Manometer for the Large Oxygen Tank: $150 each Catheter
to administer chemotherapy: when chemo is available, there is an unlimited need: $12 each 25 chairs for the parents: $15 each Ongoing hospital repairs: $2000
per year minimum Protective clothing for the nurses (100 gowns): $400 Diapers: unlimited need Monthly Salary for one additional
nurse per month: $300 Support for Pastor Jose's Ministry: Suggested donation
of $200 per month
Wish List for Orthopedic Department: Larger Ticket Items: -C-Arm Fluroscopic Unit (Multiple Manufacturers)...................................>$30,000 -Arthroscopy tower:
Camera, Monitor, Shaver Power, Light Source,
Stand, & Disposible Instruments.....................................................>$80,000 -Surgical Power (drills and attachments; mirco air).................................>25,000 Medium Ticket Items: -Surgical Implants:
-Synthes small & large fragment sets........................................>$10,000 -External Fixater...........................................................................>$5,000 Smaller Ticket Items: -Sterile Drapes
-Hand brushes with soap -Sterile Gloves -Fiber
glass casting material -Sterile Gowns
-Plaster casting material -Surgical Suction Tubing
-Plastering Splinting material -Masks -Dressing
Materials: Sterile gauze, Kerlex, & Ace Bandages
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