By Nicte Tellez Giron | Institutional Relationships
Hi!
First of all, we hope you and your family are well and safe.
Here in Un Buen Grupo De Amigos, as everywhere with this new pandemic, we had to make some changes and adjustments on our plans and we would like to share them with you.
Our Medical Care Days Program ran through the months of January and February, taking health services as well orthoses as wheelchairs, walking sticks and walkers, to those who requested it and justified the use of them, to the communities of Jolalpan (January 18th and 19th) and Tehuitzingo (February 8 th and 9 th). However, the outbreak of COVID-19 in Mexico was confirmed in the last days of February, since that date the number of cases has continued to increase and as a consequence, we couldn’t continue carrying out the Free Medical Care Days for the security of our staff, volunteers and the communities. With this, just as after the massive earthquake in 2017 we are in new territory, and just as then we decided to help our community.
Many hospitals in Mexico have been affected by the lack of medical equipment, in order to help hospital personnel avoid contagion and to guarantee the supply of personal protective equipment despite the high demand in the market, we launched the “Support Hospital Sttaf” campaign, opening the UBGA Collection Center in our facilities and enabling our web site with the purpose to collect medical and protection equipment. With these donations our staff put together kits of personal protective equipment and sanitary material, and delivered the to the health institutions that function as COVID-19 intervention centers in Puebla, to help protect every person exposed to contagion.
We also lent two of our Mobile Medical Units to the Cholula General Hospital and the Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopedics of Puebla, so that the medical staff could be able to perform triage safely.
We aim to continue helping the population in need in any matter we can, and to go back to the communities with health services as soon as it is safe again, that is our passion and our motor. As the whole world is changed by this pandemic, we thank you more than ever for your generosity in this time of need.
Some other relevant results from our January and February Medical Care Days are:
356 - Medical patients
146 - Dental patients
72 - Obstetric or pelvic ultrasound
70 - Electrocardiograms
32 - Health Promotion Workshops
5 - Delivery of orthosis
242 - Total Free Medical Treatments
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By Nicte Tellez Giron | Project Contributor
By Griselda Fernandez | Project Leader
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