The Operation Walk Boston team is now in the final phase of preparations for their 2011 trip to the Dominican Republic. The last organizational meetings are taking place and 26 pallets of supplies (including 532 boxes and an anesthesia machine) have now been shipped to our host site, the Hospital General Plaza
de la
Salud in
Santo Domingo. There it will
await the team's arrival on March 23rd. The Op Walk mission depends on the generous donation of supplies from our many partner organizations, including: the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cardinal Health,
Stryker Artizan Health,
AmeriCare,
DePuy and others.
Below some photos give an idea of shear quantity of supplies necessary for a mission of this scale:
The mission aims to provide 62 total joint replacements to 47 patients. All patients have been thoroughly screened by a multidisciplinary team made up of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and medical specialists both here and in the Dominican Republic.
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