MAY 2018 CHUSFS – HRFU TRAINING MISSION From May 7, 2018 to May 11, 2018, a group of medical providers from Hernia Help (Hernia Repair for the Underserved) visited Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Saint Francois de Sales (CHUSFS) for a training mission in hernia surgery. The mission was coordinated by Dr. Louis-Franck Telemaque and Dr. Jean-Fritz […]
University of Nebraska HRFU Hernia Mission at Bellevue Hospital Omaha 2018 Through the auspices of the University of Nebraska Medical Center with the help of Dr. Sammy Cemaj the team leader, Dr. Zach Bowman and Dr. Vishal Kothari 12 patients, without Medicare, Medicaid or private insurance that were living at or below 200% of the […]
HRFU Hernia Mission at St. Boniface Hospital Fond des Blancs Haiti 2018 The Saint Boniface Hospital in Fond Des Blancs Haiti operates upon 300 patients a month doing mostly emergency operations. They therefore had a long waiting list of elective patients many of which had hernias. Dr. Tommy Lee, a surgeon that has lead an […]
Hernia Mission to Paraguay November 20-24, 2017 The hernia mission was planned and organized by: Prof. Dr. Osmar Cuenca Torres, Director of the Department of Abdominal Wall Surgery, Hospital de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay. Dr. Victor Luraschi, Director of the Department of General Surgery, Hospital Regional de Luque, Asunción, Paraguay Dr. Wolfgang Reinpold, […]
HRFU ILAC 2017 Mission trip The team functioned well in the outstanding ILAC facility. New surgeons included Dr. Rigoberto Alvarez, and Dr. Alejandro Pena from Guadalajara Mexico. Dr. Larry Raynor was the new head of anesthesia and did an excellent job. Many team members returned and we performed 105 hernia operations. One patient with a […]
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