On July 30th, a medical supply package (valued at approximately $14,000 U.S.) was prepared by a partnership of the Association and the Royal Confraternity of Saint Teotonio (under the patronage of H.R.H. Dom Miguel de Braganza, Duke of Viseu). This package, which consists of 25 electrocautery devices for surgery, an epidural anesthesia tray, three dual lumen central line catheters, 8 Hickman introducers, 35 vacutainers for blood draws, 36 IV peripheral line catheters with introducer needle (starter kit), eight low-temp disposable cautery devices for emergency room/clinic use, two surgical needle drivers for suturing, two large tissue forceps for suturing, 19 packages of suture (all grades), 25 surgical grade electrocautery devices for operating room use (boxed separately), three surgical staplers, three endocath introducers for laparoscopy, a roto-auto suture device, and eight large boxes of suture material including one box of gore-tex suture, has been donated by the Association and Royal Confraternity to assist the needs of the people of the Republic of Sao Tome y Principe. An additional shipment of humanitarian materials from this partnership will also be sent in the next few months, and we will report more at that time.
To this end, the Association is exceedingly grateful of the efforts of Chevalier Dr. Andrew J. Schoenfeld, GCLR, FICS, MD for his contributions and work in this endeavor.
The first shipment of a medical relief package (valued at approximately $8,000 U.S.) has been donated by the Association to assist the needs of the people of the Republic of Sao Tome y Principe. Amongst other things, the first shipment includes five central line kits, six hickman catheter kits, 22 intravenous starter kits, 10 packs of intravenous line tubing, 16 electrocautery devices, 29 electrocautery tips (16 on the devices and 13 free-standing), one pair of microsurgical scissors, right angle surgical scissors, and four surgical staplers. The remainder of the shipment, consisting of many more items, is scheduled for delivery by the end of March.
The Association is greatly appreciative of the efforts of Chevalier Dr. Andrew J. Schoenfeld, GCLR, FICS, MD and Marquis Alex Montague, President of the Association, for their contributions and work in this endeavor.
A sampling of supplies to assist the medical needs of the citizens of Sao Tome y Principe
On December 19, 2006, two containers of medical supplies were sent through the Royal Rwandan Association to Dr. Dreschnack in Louisiana who will in turn deliver them to Dr. Kipshidze's Clinic at the Central University Hospital in the Republic of Georgia. Amongst other things, the containers consisted of components for half ring and standard single frame external fixator devices, 100 sterile surgical packs of biogel gloves, 10 packs of sterile suture and 27 linvatec surgical arthroscopic shavers. The approximate value of these supplies if purchased new at fair market value is $10,000 U.S. Another shipment with more general medical equipment will hopefully be ready for transmission in February. The Royal Rwandan Association is exceedingly grateful to Chevalier Dr. Andrew J. Schoenfeld, KCLR, FICS, MD and Dr. Carl Lindgren for their contribution and efforts in this endeavor.
His Majesty also wishes to tender support for the humanitarian needs of the Republic of Rwanda, and the Association intends to bolster support in this area over the next twelve months.