Donate your time, expertise or resources to help the very

poorest of the world and feel most excellent doing so.

 

There is nothing so pure as the feeling one gets from helping someone in dire need. Share in that feeling by helping us provide meaningful and ongoing care to the neediest people in the Western Hemisphere.

 

We are currently working to provide telemedicine capabilities to the medical staff in Haiti. There is an incredible need for, and a dire lack of local skilled medical staff to help these very poor and injured. Telemedicine will allow skilled and willing volunteers here in the U.S. to efficiently tend to those in need. This is an incredible enabler and has the ability to amplify many times over the efforts or our volunteers by eliminating the time and expense of international travel from their busy schedules.

 

We are seeking:

 

- Monetary support

- Pledges of volunteer time from health care professionals

 

Due to the unprecedented outbreak of Cholera in Haiti, Porsches to Plowshares has teamed up with Burn Advocates Network to bring direct, immediate relief in the form or hundreds of thousands of doses of medicine to the outlying villages surrounding Cap Haitien. Our early December mission to perform due diligence on the telemedicine solution is now primarily focused on stemming this disease while it is still in its early stages in the northern part of the country. Although treatment is straight forward, the numbers are daunting and we need donations NOW to expand the scope of our mission. Please review the following videos for more information and consider a donation to help these poor unfortunate souls. Your donation is fully 501(c)(3) tax deductible and can be made by either calling or emailing me at the address to the left or making an online contribution at www.burnadvocates.org.

We are also accepting applications for physicians, nurses and physical therapists for our next mission.

 

Esperance et Perseverance

(With Hope and Tenacity)

John

 

  

 

The following video will give you a profound

sense of the urgency:

 

 

 

Haiti Cholera  Update

1 December 2010

• Reported cases risen to just over 72,000
• 1,817 deaths (Haiti's health ministry said Wednesday)
• 20 to 40 deaths reported on a daily basis and between 900 and 1,100 hospitalizations every day
• Case mortality rate now stands at 2.3 per cent (Fadela Chaib WHO)
• Epidemic is still spreading in some places. New areas of contamination in Artibonite were reported in the commune of Saint Michel de l’Attalaye and Gros Morne (upper Artibonite), with cases in Lalomas, Platon Lalorme, Marmont and Penduis.
• Situation in the North west continues to deteriorate, with increasing needs and still too few to manage the caseload of cholera patients. (according to Unicef)
• In Port Au Prince the epidemic, so far, is relatively under control.
• 40 cholera treatment centers, average 100-200 beds each
• 61 cholera treatment units (inside hospitals and health centers) have average 20 bed capacity
• According to Ms. Chaib (WHO) the following are required: 10 additional cholera treatment centers and 39 cholera treatments units,  350 more doctors, 2,000 nurses, 2,200 support staff and 30,000 community health workers.
• Elisabeth Byrs, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population has identified the following challenges:  removal of the bodies of the dead, the disposal of medical waste, the identification of sites on which to set up health centers, and a lack of trained personnel.

Below is an update on the recipients, proposed relief and current due diligence efforts.