Fw: La Esperanza Health Fair

[John Musselman]

Forwarded message from Cecilia Becerra below.  I apologize if you've already received it, but wanted to make sure everyone saw this.  Thanks Cecilia for organizing a great clinic.

 

John

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Cecilia Becerra

To: John Musselman ; Melody FS ; Alice Kim ; Shantu Patel ; rubinc...@gmail.com ; shan...@gmail.com

Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 8:27 PM

Subject: RE: La Esperanza Health Fair

Hello everyone,
I just wanted to thank everyone for your dedicated service last saturday 30 April at La Esperanza. There were about 200 people in all (mostly women & children), Dr Patel saw about 50 of them and everyone went happy that day with the valuable assistance they received even though it wasn´t much in our eyes but it was a lot to them. Thanks to Melody & her group, all the patients who needed meds either received them that day or were deferred to the Casa de los Pobres to get them; most of the meds not used at the fair were donated to the Casa so they could provide all our patients with the ones they were prescribed in exchange, That worked out ok. Thank you for sacrificing your day, improvising everything, withstanding the heat and the dust as there were no facilities available to us as you are all used to at your clinics.  You made a big difference on those people´s lives and made that day a very memorable one for all those kids living in such deplorable conditions as you could all witness first hand. May God Bless you.
 
Cecilia

 

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From: ju...@cox.net
To: mhn...@ucsd.edu
CC: cebe...@hotmail.com
Subject: Fw: La Esperanza
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:06:34 -0700

Melody and Cecilia,

 

Here you have each other's email address.  Melody is the President of UCSD Flying Sams.  Melody, see Cecilia's requests.  Cecilia, I hope that's "waist" measurement ha ha.

 

See you both there.

 

John

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Cecilia Becerra

To: John Musselman

Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:00 AM

Subject: RE: La Esperanza

Great!! Can you please ask them if it's possible for them to bring as many BP kits as possible? we need to check everyone's BP (about 150 folks). Also, if anyone has any glucometers & strips available or can get some that would be great because I also want to check everyone's blood sugar. And one more request, if some of them can let us borrow their home weight scales for that day.
I have a poster I created based on one of Dr Oz's shows that I think would be very beneficial to these patients. It has to do with knowing " the 5 values that can save your life":
1-B.P
2-weight
3-waste measurement
4-blood sugar
5-cholesterol
 
so I want to educate everyone on these 5 very important values that can prevent disease and save their lives and I want to be able to give everyone at least 4 of those 5 values to take home on that day and information on how to obtain the cholesterol value at a local lab and how to ensure they maintain the normal values for those 5 things. So this is what I need assistance with from the students.
 
Thank you very much for your support and I look forward to seeing you at the MacDonalds at 0800. 
 
Cecilia

 
> From: ju...@cox.net
> To: cebe...@hotmail.com
> Subject: La Esperanza
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:15:48 -0700
>
> Cecilia,
>
> At the Board meeting last night, UCSD students volunteered to come to La
> Esperanza this weekend. They expect about ten students, although this
> number may vary. They will meet us at the McDonalds.
>
> John Musselman
>
>

[Shantu Patel]

Dear John, And Cecelia,

 

Just FYI we show 81 patents with 124 prescriptions done
shantu

[John Musselman]

> Just FYI we show 81 patents with 124 prescriptions done

And you made it look so easy!

John