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* The fund raising for the LaPaz burn project has been successful and the transfer was made this week to ship needed supplies to care for burn patients. To know more about the project, please read on:
Embassy of the United States of America
Public Affairs Section
Embassy website: http://bolivia.usembassy.gov
May 16, 2012
The Charge d'Affaires ai of the Embassy of the United States John S. Creamer and Commander Military Group Col. Patrick Mathes today inaugurated the first Rehabilitation Center Burn La Paz in the La Prairie High Irpavi. This project was coordinated with the Governor of the Department of La Paz and Pro-Burns Center (share fund) Foundation. This center was built by the Military Group of the US Embassy in Bolivia, as part from the Humanitarian Aid to the Bolivian population, at the request of the Government Department of La Paz who donated the land, and the Pro-Burns Center (share fund) Foundation, that for many years felt the urgent need to create a specialized center and technical support for care of people with burns. While there are units for immediate patient care with acute burns in some hospitals in the country, these do not provide rehabilitation therapy, so this will be the first specialized rehabilitation center in Bolivia. The specialty center construction cost US $ 333,671 and has capacity to serve 50 people daily. It has medical offices, waiting room and meeting room equipment and an operating theater for operations. Action Fund administered by the center will provide free care for low-income patients, especially children, and initially start providing primary care.
The Foundation for prevention, care, rehabilitation and research on burns and deformities congenital and acquired (share fund) was created in June 1975 as a private non profit, meeting the need for a reference center for the care of people who have suffered burns. Such centers have been established in all world countries since the 1960s, with the support of voluntary associations and cooperative to search joint solutions to this problem because of its high cost. Its main objectives are to achieve treatment, social and occupational rehabilitation of burned person; scientific study and rating care professional and research the many aspects that have the disease; rehabilitate congenital and acquired deformities and encourage improvements in medical care urgency. |
The Foundation associated with this center has been working for 30 years in Bolivia. Dr. DeBenavides shared the Mission and Vision statements. Since burns can overwhelm a community and increase poverty, rehabilitation can relieve this. They treat 5,900 burn cases per year in LaPaz; 70% are children under 19 years of age. The burns happen in homes where children are left alone. She described the services and activities of the Burn Center before showing photos of burn scarred patients and the improvement over several years. There was also a photo of the equipment being delivered for which we paid the shipping costs. Dr. DeBenavides concluded by emphasizing the need to serve more patients; therefore the need for more funding.