Uganda Spine Mission Day 5 By Erin Sadler Day 5 – Finding Our Stride Today was another day of surgery at both Mulago and Case Hospitals. The team at Mulago came up with a strategy the previous evening to try to circumvent the resistance of the Mulago staff from doing two cases in one day….
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DAYS 6-8 – Friday-Sunday August 18-20: At the end of this long week, these three mystical days seemed to blend together into one. On the spinal side of things, the mission team split up so some could stay for the surgery on I.K., a 64 years-young female patient who was…
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Day 3- August 16th The morning began with a trip to the warehouse where tens of thousands of dollars of medical supplies were waiting for us. VeAhavta, a humanitarian organization based out of Toronto, organized and delivered a 40-foot container also containing 200 Kinder Kits, bags of school supplies for our spine…
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It’s Go Time! August 13, 2019 Day 5 We started the day today with another 6:00am wakeup call, at breakfast by 6:30am. I would say we definitely loaded up for our first day of surgery; French toast, bread, marble cake, potatoes, eggs, we ate it all. We loaded up…
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August 17, 6:30 pm Started with rounds at Case Med Center. Yesterdays case had a fever and as soon as he saw me started screaming, a most natural response from the kids I operate on! The 14 year old scoliosis patient is liking the pampered life of the hospital. She…
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Hi Spine Place friends! Well Dr. Lieberman is back at work this week in Plano after his two-week spine mission trip to Uganda. This is the 5th year that Dr. Lieberman has been to Uganda and it’s amazing to see the impact he has out there. Here are the first…
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Did you know yesterday was World Health Day? World Health Day is celebrated annually by the World Health Organization and the international community. Since 1950, it has been held each year on April 7th and focuses on a relevant global health issue. What’s really exciting about this is that Health Volunteers Overseas…
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Day 1 DAY 1 – August 14th: Our mission began at the London Heathrow airport on Saturday August 13th. Jet-lagged from our trips from Toronto, Florida, Texas, and Poland, some remained in the airport while others day-tripped into London before the connecting flight. The anticipation grew upon the arrival of…
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DAY 2 – August 15th: At 7:30am, two full vans left home for Mulago and Case Hospitals. The plan for the day was ambitious: 4 surgeries and a spine clinic. As we entered the Mulago government hospital, jaws dropped at the overcrowded, unsanitary, poorly maintained and undersupplied orthopaedic ward and…
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DAY 4 – August 17th: We split up to tackle three surgeries today. At Case, the A-team (Dr. Siemionow, Dr. Selvon St. Clair and Jordan) started the day with ward-rounds, visiting patients recovering from surgery. We discharged a 39 year-old woman who Dr.Kayanja and Dr. Selvon St. Clair operated on…
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