{"id":4040,"date":"2018-11-19T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2018-11-19T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T19:46:10","slug":"cardiology-clinics-and-donation-of-medical-equipment-in-vanni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/?p=4040","title":{"rendered":"Cardiology Clinics and Donation of Medical Equipment in Vanni"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assist RR conducted three cardiology clinics simultaneously in Mannar, Killinochchi, and Mullaittivu, in Sri Lanka. This was made possible by the generous volunteer service of Dr Mayooran Shanmuganathan, Dr Khalda Halim & Dr Andy Morley-Smith, all from UK Harefield Hospital. They performed echocardiogram scans on >250 patients and exercise treadmill ECG tests on 20 patients in 5 days. This ensured early diagnosis and management for patients with heart disease, who otherwise face long waiting times and travel to see a cardiac specialist in the neighbouring districts. Unlike the previous trips, they spent a considerable amount of time during the past week training local doctors and technicians in various aspects of cardiology medical practice.\u00a0We have conducted 8 cardiology clinics in Sri Lanka and the volunteer doctors have helped over 1000 patients during these 8 clinics. Words of mention and congratulations must also go to Dr Muhammadh Nisath, Dr Thanabalasingam Piragalathan and other junior doctors for their excellent contribution to the clinic in the past week.\u00a0A special thanks must also go to Mr James who has been providing the volunteer doctors with free accommodation at his excellent hotel in Mannar (Hotel Gateway Inn, Emilnagar, Mannar town).\u00a0Finally, a\u00a0BIG THANKS to donors on\u00a0https:\/\/mydonate.bt.com\/fundraisers\/srilankacardiologyclinic<\/a>. Your money will be used to run clinics and also donate necessary medical equipments to the needy hospitals as well as support the most needly patients receive healthcare and support their livelihood.\u00a0Assist RR will continue to run these clinics in the region until a cardiologist is appointed to these hospitals. Please get in touch if you wish to volunteer!<\/p>\n

Further to requests from Mullaithivu & Kilinochchi hospitals for essential medical equipment, our\u00a0friend from Australia, Eng Thirukumaran, raised funds in Australia to purchase 3 Multipara monitors (2 to Mullaithivu & 1 to Kilinochchi)\u00a0at a cost Rs 600,000. A multipara\u00a0monitor\u00a0provides and records\u00a0a patient’s medical vital signs (body temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate and respiratory rate) or measurements of the activity of various body organs such as ECG monitors and anaesthesia monitors.\u00a0Vital signs determine which treatment protocols to follow, provide critical information needed to make life-saving decisions, and confirm feedback on treatments performed.\u00a0These monitors were handed over to these hospitals last week. Funds were provided by\u00a0GODS OWN CHILDREN FOUNDATION,\u00a0Australasian Chapter, and\u00a0friends\u00a0from Australia through\u00a0Rotary Australia World Community Service. I would like to thank the Australians for their generous support that enabled these donations. Photos are attached.<\/p>\n

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Assist RR conducted three cardiology clinics simultaneously in Mannar, Killinochchi, and Mullaittivu, in Sri Lanka. This was made possible by the generous volunteer service of Dr Mayooran Shanmuganathan, Dr Khalda Halim & Dr Andy Morley-Smith, all from UK Harefield Hospital. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/assistrr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}