Posted by: shirish June 3, 2005
help mr. baniya's kids
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Most Probably the surgery they are talking about is the Fassier-Duval Telescopic IM System which includes placement of nails (as orthopedic surgeons call it) to prevent future fracture in this particular case with minimal interception. My Suggestion: There must be hundreds of other in Nepal who suffer from similar conditions and gone untreated and suffering. So instead of spending 100,000 plus on one individual and if we can raise that kind of money, why not to buy the instrument and train an orthopedic surgeon in Nepal who can fix this. For the training purpose, I am sure the hospitals who have facilities to treat OI will be willing to train a doctor from Nepal. I went through the procedure and it is not very different from IM nailing that Orthopedic Surgeons perform regularly in Nepal. So the plan of action to provide service also for those who do NOT have access like Mr. Bania and benefit of many other suffers. Helping an individual is human and helping only one person is myopic too. 1. Find the price for the instruments. 2. Contact with Nepal Orthopedic Surgeons Association of possibility train a surgeon to fix with Fassier-Duval Telescopic IM System. 3. Correspondence with academic/medical settings where they will train a Nepali surgeon or even the device companies may have such training systems. 4. I am pretty sure if we can raise funds to buy instruments, we can find surgeon who will perform that kind of operations pro bono. 5. Service to more and more OI patients. (main purpose)
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