Dear All,
Attached is a picture (some Biomed students, 2 Biomed trainers and Pignon Rotarians, Pignon Adm staff) 
Thanks and God Bless.
Adele

   Dear All
24 Hospitals and Health Centers scatered all over Haitit have been sending 45 of threir Hpspital workers to Pignon to receive training in Hospital equipments repair Hospital sa Cange from PIH , Dr Paul Farmer , Hospital Albert Schweitzer , Brenda Stafford , Hopital Espoir , Hopital Beraca   , different public hospitals ; hopital Sacre -Coeur of Milot etc have benefited of this trainingHopital Birnfaisance of Pignon is helping structuring other hospital in Haiti 

The red dots with hallow represent the different  sites of Hospital  , all over Haiti ,covered by this program
Dr Guy

HRFU Team Makes a Difference!

Hernia Repair For the Underserved

(submitted by Dr. Charles Filipi)

The team of Cynthia Ferris MD, Rachel Dowd RN, Theresa Alvarado RN, Bob Cusick MD, David Chen MD, Lesly Manigat MD in conjunction with Dr Paul Severson of "Project Haiti" did an outstanding job operating upon 36 patients and teaching 3 fully trained Haitian general surgeons to do Pediatric inguinal hernia repairs and the adult Lichtenstein repair for inguinal hernias. Eight demonstration cases with the trainee as first assistant were followed by 28 cases performed by the trainee with the proctor assisting or supervising. These physicians are satisfactorily trained and will be able to serve the people of Haiti for many years to come.
Data was kept on the operations performed and scores were tabulated on a new surgical technique rating form. This will be utilized for further analysis and publications.
Dr. Filipi, president of HRFU, and Dr. Chen will monitor by e-mail the mesh operations performed by the trainees. The trainees have utilized a small amount of mesh provided them, and now HRFU with the help of industry will provide monitored free mesh for the future.
Dr. Cusick, Dr. Chen, Dr. Manigat and Dr. Jeudy are now in discussion about hernia studies and the development of hernia centers of excellence. Hernia Repair for the Underserved will assist these projects.
All team members intend to return to Pignon to provide follow-up and training of other Haitian surgeons. The overall project appears to be a success if we can now facilitate the performance of the operations by the trained surgeons and keep records to document use of the training provided.

Dear All

The Jaipur Prosthetics Center in Pignon is attracting patients from 

This Map below, with red dots with white hallo shows the 
geographical distribution of where patients in need of prosthetics limbs everywhere in Haiti.
You can see that we get patients coming from upper half of Haiti .
The reason the lower half of the Map is not covered is that there 3 Centers of 
Prosthetics Limbs in the South and West ans South-East of Haiti.
We have already given 53 prothesis ( Above knee , Below knee 
Dr.Guy

This Prosthetic Center is a combination effort of the Jaipur, the Rotary
and Hopital Bienfaisance/PFH..

Submitted by Kathy Roozeboom who is currently serving with PFH/HELP in Pignon, Haiti.

 Today is Wednesday and we started the day with our devotions on the deck with goat, chcken, duck, music and street noices of all kinds. This is our final day and  we all have such mixed emotions. We all miss our loved ones and are so ready to reunite with them at home, but on the other hand we feel so called to love those all here in Haiti, and continue to bring the love of Jesus to them. We had a wonderful breakfast with pancakes and the best homemade juice and boiled eggs and of course coffee. We had the wonderful priveledge of delivering 37 desks to different schools that we had made during the course of the time that we were here. Did we see a lot of excitement amongst the children. We also handed out a book on John from the Bible and told them how much we loved them. We prayed with the teachers, students and the school. We were so touched when a class sung in the English language “Today is the day that the Lord has made” tears of joy ran down our cheeks. We came back and had lunch consisting of sweet potatoes, yum, coleslaw and rice and beans. Our cooks have been wonderful. We have been so blessed with our meals. In the afternoon we shopped to help the locals that had their merchandise on the side of the street. They were appreciative for our support, and this brings food to their tables. Their handiwork was beautiful. We then left with John who operates the Five Loaves center and took us to the country side where the poverty is the worst of the worst. We had clothing and toys for the family. The tears of joy that we experienced in the morning became tears of great sadness. It is something that is unexplainable. Dirt floors to sleep on, very dirty clothing, water very difficult to get, starvation, and a home itself is in poorest conditions. But as we prayed with each family we could hear their week voices responding to our prayers. Our heads hang low as we sit in the back of our pickup. We cry to God and say Lord give us direction, show us how we can better ourselves to be the hands and feet of Jesus and then our teenage interperter was singing “My God is so good”. As we draw a close to the day, we again had a wonderful meal and discussed our day journey and what the day meant to us. We praise God for keeping us safe as we rode in the back of the pickup on the worst bumpy  roads and the entire week none of us fell out.  We priase God for keeping each of us healthy. We thank God for all the hymns that we heard for hours from area churches. We praise God for the beatiful creation in Haiti. The mountains proclaim the glory of God. We praise God for putting a few smiles on God’s children in Haiti. We praise God for giving us new visions. We praise God for the lows and highs of the week. As I close this blog I ask those reading this to continue to pray for the poverty in the world, and that God will touch each one of us in some way so we can live fully to honor and praise God’s name in our walk