{"id":60,"date":"2017-02-27T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medi-for-help.com\/en\/news-und-aktuelles\/werkstattleitung-geht-in-haitianische-haende\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T09:22:54","slug":"workshop-management-passes-to-haitian-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medi-for-help.com\/en\/news-and-updates\/workshop-management-passes-to-haitian-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop management passes to Haitian hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Bayreuth company medi inaugurated the relief project medi for help after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010. The aim: to help the victims of the quake unbureaucratically on site and to provide lower limb prostheses for those in need. The spectrum of care these days also includes traumatological and orthopaedic cases. 6,250 patients have been cared for to date. In the interview, Ralf Jungblut, master CPO and manager of the medi for help workshop, reports on his experience and everyday life in Haiti.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Mr Jungblut, you have been in Haiti supporting medi for help for over two years now. What do you think is so special about this project?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn my view, what makes it so special is the fact that medi for help has been supporting the Haitian population continuously since the earthquake in 2010. This is done through the provision of financial support and by the continuous engagement of European volunteers. 100% of the donations given are made available for the project on site\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n What challenges did you face during this time? And how were they solved?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTime and time again, we had delays with the delivery of materials, so that our workflow ground to a halt and we had to improvise, in order to keep to the deadlines. When this happened, we simply made up a new prosthesis from several old ones. Patients who needed complicated prostheses, such as those with amputations of the upper limbs, presented another challenge, because medi does not supply any products for this. So we adapted components from children\u2019s prostheses to make up upper arm prostheses. This worked very well and our patients are overjoyed at the result\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How did you find working together with the volunteers?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe collaboration has been very good, because our volunteers to date have always brought with them an outstanding mixture of professional competence and social commitment. Above and beyond our day to day work with patients on site, we\u2019ve had, to this day, regular, cordial contacts with all the staff \u2013 we are all practically friends. Many volunteers come back to Haiti and spend their time with the patients and the regular medi for help core team\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n