By Carolyn Schuetz | DIrector/Treasurer, COANIQUEM BCF
COANIQUEM Burn Center continues to provide free comprehensive rehabilitation services to severely burned children from throughout Latin America, resulting in improved and happier lives for these children.
In the newest brochure attached here, you will see the broad range of services - medical, psychological, social, educational, and therapeutic.
One of the most notable statistics in the Annual Report for 2014 is the reduction in the number of children treated in both 2013 and 2014. This is a good thing! There may be several contributing factors, but the major reason seems to be the increased prevention activity and education conducted by COANIQUEM. School children and their parents participate in sessions where they learn how to improve safety conditions in the home and how to avoid accidents. Mass media presentations stress these issues. Children's books have been created with "mascot" characters practicing safe activities.
The staff of COANIQUEM in Chile and those who have been trained in other Latin countries will continue to provide quality care, but they would much prefer to see burns prevented! Those of us in the U.S. who support the treatment of the children also support these prevention activities.
We celebrate any number of fewer child burn victims!
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