Friday, November 1, 2013

Thank You Health Partners International of Canada

Health Partners International of Canada (HPIC)

HPIC provides medication packages to groups and individuals who provide health care in less fortunate areas of the world. The organization obtains the medications at discounted prices direct from pharmaceutical companies and then passes this discount along to the group or individual that provides the care. 

Medications are an expensive but essential component of health care, and the role HPIC plays allows modern treatment that might not otherwise be possible. Thank You HPIC.  

The pharmaceutical companies who provide the medications to HPIC play a key role in the Giving Process. Thank you to those pharmaceutical companies who participate in this worthy program. 

HPIC has helped me out on past trips to Nicaragua and to Haiti and I have requested their help for my trips this winter. Claudia Sighomnou, Director, Physician Programs with HPIC, is helping me with this project. Thank you Claudia Sighomnou!

HPIC depends on donations to continue their work and I recommend this organization as worthy of your support. http://www.hpicanada.ca/


Truckload of Gigante children brought to Clinic

The mothers in Gigante, Nicaragua, where I will help out this winter, recently identified GI issues as a top health care concern for their children. My request to HPIC therefore includes medications for worms, intestinal parasites, and bacterial gastroenteritis, and also for dehydration (oral rehydration solution packets), which is a common and serious problem associated with viral gastroenteritis. I will also take vitamins for nutrition, which is a key feature of any GI health problem. 


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