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Ghana Medical Help

In 2015 - Volume 1
Support GMH while enjoying an incredible evening of music by two internationally renowned acts. The jazz overtones of the Joe Huron Trio and the funk grooves of Coldjack are sure to please. Both bands are being played on radio stations around the world and are bringing their world class talent to the Orillia Opera House for one night only. Adding to the excitement, we are happy to present Neil Crone, Master of Ceremonies and Canadian actor (formally of Little Mosque on the Prairie), during intermission for your entertainment.

Significant proceeds from the evening will be donated to GMH, which will be additionally offering the unique opportunity to acquire your own personal autographed copy of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's top selling books: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth and You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes.

The Orillia Opera House
March 6, 2015
7:30 p.m.
Price: $28.00

Visit coldjack.com or facebook.com/coldjackband for details.

Purchase tickets here. 
Chris Hadfield
Wears a GMH T-shirt Recording with the Barenaked Ladies

Get yours for only
$20 + shipping. 
At the end of 2014 Kelly Hadfield presented at the National Optics Institute to discuss embarking on a valuable new partnership model for improving health both at home and abroad.

Read the article here.
There is ONE spot left in our
2015 GMH Medical Student Elective Program!

Experience an unforgettable 6 weeks that combine fulfilling medical service with a meaningful cultural exchange. From July 2 to August 19, participants will gain hands-on experience in diverse rural hospital environments and discover the realities of working in global health.

Interested?
Email Kelly by March 6 to learn about how a GMH elective program is far more than just hospital palcements.

Cost: $2,000 CAD
Buy an AUTOGRAPHED
Chris Hadfield
book here!
Bear Creek Grad is Changing the World!

Read the article in Sharing Simcoe. 


Mazen El-Baba is our GMH Volunteer of the Month for January & February 2015


In 2014, Mazen began getting involved in our medical equipment acquisition project and traveled to Ghana to conduct needs assessment research. This year, Mazen was given the heavy responsibility of acquiring all of the medical equipment sponsored by the $55,000 Rotary Global Grant, which is a process involving an immense amount of research, administrative coordination, and problem solving. Mazen has risen to surpass every challenge brilliantly and consistently is making us proud.

Thank you Mazen for your hard work and dedication!


The St. Albert Rotary Club
is our GMH Sponsor of the Month
for January & February 2015


We want to take this opportunity to thank the St. Albert Rotary Club as our Sponsor of the Month. The St. Albert Rotary Club has been generous sponsors of the GMH medical equipment donation project since we first approached them in 2011. In total they have now donated $17,000 to GMH! These funds have been critical for empowering hospital staff in beneficiary hospitals to save lives and alleviate suffering in rural Northern Ghana.

Thank you St. Albert Rotary Club!
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GMH Now Has a Toronto Office Location!

After many years of operating from founder Kelly Hadfield's home in Utopia, Ontario, we're excited to announce that starting March 1st GMH is moving into an office by Yonge & Dundas.

New Address:
Ghana Medical Help
205 Church St,
Toronto ON,
M5B1Y7
Kelly Hadfield Visits Northern Ghana January & February 2015
 


Welcome to my new home in Sandema, courtesy of my kind and wonderful host Dr. Sarkodie, the doctor in Sandema who serves nearly 90,000 people all by himself.

The weather in northern Ghana was better than I could never have imagined it! It’s the harmattam, which in Ghana translates to their unbearably cold winter, but to Canadians, it means the most perfect summer days! Each day is sunny and warm, and kindly accompanied by a cool and relaxing breeze.

After a long period of work, I stopped to climb the Operation Groundswell tree (wearing conveniently my OG shirt) and relax while munching on some fried plantain. A dry paradise all around.

Later, I said goodbye to my good friend Daniel at the Horizon’s Children’s Centre, who has finished holidays and off to continue studying sciences at Nandom Secondary School, a village in the Upper West where Ghana Medical Help has a partner hospital.

This beautiful car, driven by the wonderful Baba, was my home for a week. I had nonstop days visiting our 5 partner hospitals in the Upper West Region, plus 2 newly made district hospitals that GMH will support in 2015 – Gwollu and Wechiau.

It excites me to no end to see the enormous impact our donated equipment is making in the Upper West! Our donated equipment is being used in nearly every ward of each hospital, empowering staff for the FIRST TIME EVER to continuously monitor critically ill patients and respond quickly in those vital moments to save lives.

Improving both accuracy and efficiency, I saw that all hospitals use our donated patient monitors on every incoming patient to help handle the enormous load of patients coming each day to the hospital. On the walls of the pediatric wards, I’d smile to find educational materials from our Helping Babies Breathe program posted as reference.

But what I found was also slightly overwhelming, because the need is still so much. Our equipment has helped immensely – taking the hospitals to an entirely new level of effective health care service and delivery.
However, if an emergency ward now has one patient monitor, what happens if more than one patients come in with a critical condition? Oxygen concentrators and suction machines are needed in every ward (plus the operating theatre), so while it’s fantastic that the hospitals will now have one, they still need more. I could go on and on. This is where we need your help. GMH supported 10 district hospitals in 2014, and this year will be supporting 3 more. By virtue of dividing our equipment donations by 13, it significantly limits how much support we can offer a hospital in a year. And these hospitals don’t forget can serve over 90,000 people with a single doctor.
 
Please, please support our equipment acquisition and donation program by donating and helping us to procure our targeted equipment here.

Hosted by my friend Naaza, one weekend I stayed in a very remote village that has no cell service or electricity called Yikpabongo.

In communities like this we are seeking to target remote community health programs. This small village has an incredible history, and is home to many fruits I've never heard of or tried before!


I went to the Bongo Hospital to evaluate the impact equipment donations have had. Last winter, this hospital serving 85,000 people with 1 doctor tragically had an electrical fire that burned down their only operating theatre. The temporary one hosted by what was their dental ward I can proudly say is operating largely using GMH donated equipment. Thank you for donating to GMH and helping to empower the Bongo Hospital in a time of need!

The traditional community around Bongo is incredibly interesting. Our volunteer extraordinaire and photojournalist Hazel Vint wrote a superb article last year describing her experience with a traditional healer. 

I’m nearly onto my last day in Ghana! I wish I could take the Ghana Medical Help moto home with me! Note the GMH stickers all over the bike. One of our GMH Ambassador’s at the Nadowli Hospital is quite proud.

24 hours and 50 degrees in temperature change later...back in Canada.

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