Donating Medical Supplies to the Childrens Hospital in Santiago

Last week we travelled to Santiago with several boxes of medical supplies to donate to the childrens hospital.  The director came right out with a warm welcome and posed wth us for a few pictures.  Many of the supplies were initially donations from the U of Chicago medical students to the Foundation, many of which were specifically pediatric materials or were advanced supplies that we wouldn’t have been able to use at the Foundation.  We donated materials such as catheters, CO2 monitors, and tracheotomy tubes.        

        

They were very grateful to recieve the donations and assured us that all the materials will be put to good use!

We were then able to tour the hospital to see the recently-opened childrens burn unit (the only other childrens burn unit in the country aside from one in Santo Domingo, the capital), and the children’s oncology unit.

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