Medical Needs – Urgent and Ongoing…..

As any of you who have been reading Dixie’s posts on here know, medical supplies are an ongoing and urgent need both at GLA and at the hospitals and clinics all over Haiti and specifically the ones near God’s Littlest Angels.

In conjunction with one of our operations people on the ground and one of the doctors who works at the Haiti Baptist Mission, they came up with the following urgently needed medicines:

Most urgent:

Tetanus Vaccines

Amoxicillin suspension for kids

Erythromycin suspension for kids

Cephalexin suspension for kids

Flagyl injection (500mg/100ml)

Ciproflaxin 500 mg tablets

Amoxicillin 500 mg tablets

Dicloxacillin 500 mg tablets

Ampicillin 1 gr. for injection

Gentamicin injection

Ceftriaxone 1 gr. Injection

Also needed but not quite as urgent:

Septra (Bactrim)

Cefaclor

Cephalexin tablets

Cefoxitin injection 1 gr.

We also need a couple of portable oxygen tanks to be  available so we can have the ability to transport sick kids to the hospital.

Call to Action: I’ve had so many people asking, what can we do to help.   Here are three specific things that everyone reading this can do:

1. If you are in the medical profession (or know someone who is), see if you can get any of these medicines either donated or at a substantially reduced cost.
   • If you can access “relatively small” amounts, send them to our Colorado office at God’s Littlest Angels 2085 Crystal River Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80915.
   • If you have access to a drug company or hospital and can potentially come up with large quantities of any of these, please get in touch with me and we’ll start working on the logistics of getting the medicine down there.   How big is “large?”  Let’s just say that I’d love to accumulate enough of the items on this list that we need to line up a private plane to fly them all down to Haiti.
2. If you, or anyone you know, might have access to private planes or other ways to ship these medicines down to Haiti in a very timely manner, or ways to fund those type of shipments,  see what you can line up and keep me informed.   It is not an over dramatization to say that every day that we wait to get these medical supplies down to Haiti, more people are the risk of dying from infection and disease.
3. I’ve mentioned before that we’re talking to two drug companies about tetanus vaccines.   It appears that we aren’t going to be able to get the tetanus vaccines donated, so we’ve set up a separate page on the blog at Tetanus Vaccine Donations and would love it if we could get everyone who reads this to go to that page on the site and make a donation, however big or small, towards the cost of providing tetanus vaccines. We don’t have the final costs, but it appears that we’re looking at around $20 per dose.

If you want to read more about what Dixie said yesterday about needing tetanus vaccines, click Tetanus Vaccines.

Thank you for everything you are doing to help us help the kids in Haiti.

Tom Vanderwell

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