Our organization is cooperating with doctors from the Czech organization Hand for Help on building a quickly assembled hospital in Haiti destroyed by the earthquake. The 3 Hospital Units (a operating unit, a maternity unit and a outpatients´ department) will be built in the beginnning of March from portable polyurethane blocks (the hospital units will be assembled in just 2-3 days). The Czech team will stay in Haiti for 3-6 months to provide the needed medical care and to train the local personnel and then transfer the hospital to a local NGO or a government organization. The team will bring and install also a mobile water treatment facility powerful enough to provide drinking water for hundreds people.
The Swiss branch of The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles sent a 20-foot sea container to Cambodia in December 2004 with clothing, school supplies, computers, bicycles, food, toys and medical equipment.
A 20-foot sea container with hospital beds, medical and surgical supplies and equipment was sent from the Netherlands in January 2004. The shipment was received and its contents distributed.
From 2004 to 2006 four sea containers of hospital beds, medical supplies, educational materials, computers and medical technology were sent.
In addition, in early June 2005, a number of large air shipments of antibiotics (streptomycin and rifampicin) were sent to treat Buruli ulcer.
In July 2004, our members in the United Kingdom sent a full sea container of additional goods collected for Guinea-Bissau, including school equipment (approx. 200,000 pencils), stationery, computers, clothing, toys and medical supplies. The school equipment was donated to schools in rural areas of the country. The medical supplies were distributed to a major hospital in the capital city, Bissau.
To help fulfill President Gorbachev's vision of a modern hospital within Russia that could treat children's blood diseases, The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles from the USA, Britain, France and Germany sent large amounts of modern diagnostic and treatment equipment to the Research Institute of Pediatric Hematology and a hospital in Moscow. Including a flow cytometer, sonogram machine, cardiovascular instruments, ventilators and more, the shipments were sent in 1993 with a total value of $1.9 million. Another shipment sent in August 1995 was valued at nearly $500,000.
The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles sent out by sea from the United States a 45-foot container with 36 hospital beds in addition to many boxes of medical and surgical supplies, medications, clothing and toys for Dominican people who experienced catastrophic consequences from the severe floods that took place on the island at the end of May 2004. We were informed by our consignee organization, Stepping Stones Ministries, that some hospitals in the Dominican Republic are lacking in hospital beds and patients are being positioned on the floor.
Cambodia now has the highest percentage of mine amputees of any country in the world—the total number of mine amputees in the country being about 36,000 people.
Landmines have even more catastrophic effects on children. In Cambodia, an average of 20 per cent of children injured by mines and unexploded ordnance die from their injuries. Children who manage to survive explosions are likely to be more seriously injured than adults, and often permanently disabled.
“You were interested to know some of the health issues here in Kiribati. The outer island where 2/3 of the population live are traditionally healthy…
On South Tarawa, the capital island, people are eating a lot of imported foodstuffs and this is resulting in obesity and non communicable diseases including cardiac problems, diabetes, and stroke. Unfortunately many outer islands obtain imported foodstuffs so their diets and it's ramifications are becoming apparent throughout the Republic….
In September 2005 a German medical relief organisation brought 3 large boxes with sutures and suture needles (value 31,000 US$) to the Al-Thawrah Hospital in city of Taiz, Yemen.
The German branch of the Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles was happy to provide this relief organisation with the suture material, which is sending specialised German doctors on a regular base to Yemen to operate mainly children for free.
In July 2004, our members in the United Kingdom sent a full sea container of additional goods collected for Guinea-Bissau, including school equipment (approx. 200,000 pencils), stationery, computers, clothing, toys and medical supplies. The school equipment was donated to schools in rural areas of the country. The medical supplies were distributed to a major hospital in the capital city, Bissau.
About Sri Chinmoy - The Founder of the Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles
Sri Chinmoy Centres International
