{"id":86,"date":"2013-08-29T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medi-for-help.com\/en\/news-und-aktuelles\/cornelia-koehler-ist-neue-werkstattleiterin-von-medi-for-help\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T09:09:17","slug":"new-workshop-manage-haiti-cornelia-koehler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medi-for-help.com\/en\/news-and-updates\/new-workshop-manage-haiti-cornelia-koehler\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornelia K\u00f6hler is the new workshop manager for medi for help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>One of the most important decisions in life is which career to follow. It\u2019s ideal when calling meets career. As in Cornelia K\u00f6hler\u2019s case. \u201cI had always wanted to work with my hands. Preferably in the field of medicine. Something I could do to help other people\u201d, the 26-year-old said. It\u2019s no problem for K\u00f6hler that she\u2019s already been pursuing her profession in disaster areas.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>For instance, in March 2010, shortly after the catastrophic earthquake, she went to Haiti as an orthopaedic technician with the Johanniter international relief organisation. Initially concerned with tending the wounds of the injured, her activities gradually shifted to providing leg prostheses. \u201cI always had great fun working together with my Haitian colleagues and the patients. I was most deeply impressed by the patients\u2019 gratitude, and this confirmed my convictions \u2013 particularly during difficult moments\u201d. So eventually the six months originally planned turned into two whole years. By the end of her stay she had set up and was managing the orthopaedic workshop in Leog\u00e2ne (40 kilometres away from Port-au-Prince) together with a colleague, and had trained six indigenous trainees in the field of orthopaedic technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.medi-for-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_11621-1024x678-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-807\"\/><figcaption> Cornelia K\u00f6hler (2. from left) with colleagues<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-style-card is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Many wide-ranging challenges<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One and a half years later, now a master orthopaedic technician, she\u2019s back in Haiti. Back in the disaster area. Where she feels she\u2019s needed most. Devoted to her work as workshop manager for medi for help. After a six-week induction period under her predecessor Michael Beck, she has now been responsible for the patients and the medi for help staff members since the beginning of July. Her mission is planned to last a year, at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenges that she and her team will have to overcome are as numerous as they are varied. For example, renovation and conversion work in and on the workshop is common. At the moment the high air humidity is attacking the walls in the fitting rooms so they\u2019re beginning to crumble. Part of the walling has to be replaced and plastered as soon as possible. They are also planning to fit out a new plaster room for the patients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>But she also has to organise repairs to defective fans, plaster saws and a broken hot air blower. And that can take time. \u201cFirst I have to file an application to the hospital for a repair. They then review the request; which takes about two weeks. A hospital employee then comes to the workshop to inspect the dilapidated parts of the building or the defective equipment. After another two weeks the actual technician or workman comes to carry out the repairs\u201d, said K\u00f6hler. A waiting game that not only tries your patience. Flexibility and pragmatism are also need to keep the workshop running. This is where the young workshop manager benefits from the experience she gained during her first Haiti mission.&nbsp;\u201cFor example, we\u2019ve replaced the hot air blower we need for modifying the prostheses with a Bunsen burner for the time being. So we can carry on providing the patients with prostheses as fast as they need them\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>And we\u2019ll be able to do so for the next few months. Because: urgently needed materials such as resin, adhesive, plastic and rivets have finally been delivered. After six months! That\u2019s how long the Haitian customs impound the goods. \u201cWe felt like it was Christmas when the supplies were eventually delivered\u201d says K\u00f6hler. \u201cThey are our most valuable assets and the very basis of our work\u201d. If the technicians use them sparingly we can build up to 300 sockets and orthoses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that the consignment has arrived just now is another happy coincidence for another reason. The relief organisation recently opened the second workshop in Port-au-Prince. \u201cSo now many patients no longer have to put up with the four-hour journey to Deschapelles, instead they can be cared for right where they live\u201d, says K\u00f6hler. And the way she says it shows that this really is her calling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important decisions in life is which career to follow. 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