Healing Hands for Haiti deploys first response team with Handicap International

Posted By: Al Ingersoll on January 17, 2010

Dear Colleagues,



My son Patrick did hear from his Haitian parents and his sisters. All are
ok!!!!



Thank you for all your concern!



Take care,

Al

Al Ingersoll, BA, CP
Winkley Prosthetics, Orthotics & Pedorthics
740 Douglas Drive North
Golden Valley MN 55422 USA
Ph. 763-546-1177 Fax 763-847-9508
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January 14, 2009
Healing Hands for Haiti deploys first response team with Handicap
International
Five volunteers from Healing Hands for Haiti International from Canada and
USA will be forming an early response team to join Handicap International
and deploy to Haiti. Dr. Colleen O’Connell (Physical Medicine &
Rehabilitation specialist, Fredericton), Al Ingersoll (Prosthetics,
Minneapolis), Frank Shirley (Orthotics, Boston), Carly Gray (Physical
Therapist, Ottawa), Ruth Duggan (Occupational Therapist, Halifax) will fly
Tuesday and Wednesday (Jan. 19, 20) to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic,
and will then take an air shuttle to Port au Prince.

The mission’s goal include:
Activities
1.1 Search, identification & immediate essential first aid and wound care
for injured persons in the community
1.2 Provision of transportation to hospitals
1.3 Provision of essential life-saving injury care at hospital level

2.1 Installation of a temporary hospital support structure in coordination
with the functioning hospitals
2.2 Identification, distribution of devices and consumables, urgent
rehabilitation care and follow-up at hospital and community level of persons
with injuries
2.3 Printing and distribution of leaflets on wound management and injury
care

3.1 Identification and provision of specific mid term cares and follow-up
for persons with amputation, spinal cord injuries and complex fractures
3.2 Provision and fitting of persons with amputation and spinal cord
injuries with prosthetic or orthotic device

Dr. Colleen O’Connell is a Board member of Healing Hands for Haiti
International and heads the Canadian partner, Team Canada Healing Hands Inc.
The HHHI headquarters in Port–au-Prince has suffered damage to 75% of its
buildings and infrastructure including its clinic and prosthetic/orthotics
workshop. The guest house facility is in tact to accommodate medical teams
and become a base of operations. About 25% of our local staff have been
located and are safe. An emergency relief fund has been set up for local
staff and their families. A structural engineer will be sent to assess
damage and plan repairs. The planned construction of Haiti’s first Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation Institute will be accelerated.

For further information contact:


Eric Doubt, Executive Director/ Directeur général
Healing Hands for Haiti International
Tel: 905.702.9964 Cell: 905.510.0401
Canadian Office: 26 James St., Georgetown ON L7G 2H4

A physical medicine & rehabilitation project since 1999
www.healinghandsforhaiti.org
Video at: http://www.youtube.com/healinghandsforhaiti
Photos at: www.flickr.com/photos/ericdoubt/collections/72157612037622688/

Jeff Campbell, General Manager
Team Canada Healing Hands Inc.
www.teamcanadahealinghands.ca
PO Box 1313 Station A
Fredericton, NB, E3B5C8
Tel: 506.363.3836
Fax: 506.363.3244
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