My name is Braden Fichter. I'm an emergency medicine physician from Denver, Colorado. 

This fundraiser is to support our upcoming April 2017 trip to remote Bajura, Nepal; I will be leading a medical clinic with local partners, and deploying with Global Outreach Doctors.  www.globaloutreachdoctors.org , a 501(c) registered non-profit charity. 

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The Location: 
Bajura is in the remote northwestern region of Nepal. Approximately 150,000 people are served by just a few health clinics; the average lifespan is just 58 years old, and only 35% of women give birth with any form of medical provider.  We will join established groups who have been preparing for us, and the team expects to see hundreds of patients per day.  

What we will do:    (With your help!)
We will run clinics in areas that rarely see medical staff:

Emergency services
   - hypertensive crisis
   - meningitis
   - fractures
   - sepsis
   - cellulitis and wound debridement
   - heart failure
   - hyperglycemic ketoacidosis
   

Primary Care
   - chronic disease treatment for up to 1 year
   - pediatric milestones
   - vitamin deficiencies

Dentistry 
   - Abscess drainage
   - Extractions
   - Restoration/implants
   - Cleaning and flouridation
   - Handing out toothbrushes and teaching children

Why this matters to me: 
Some of the more profound experiences I have had as a doctor have nothing to do with physical maladies. It's the emotional connections and nuances of the human condition that continue to amaze me. 

Practicing medicine in remote places reminds me of the power of education and basic public health. Leveraging expertise against scarce resources can make a real difference. 

This about more than medicine; we want to produce sustainable change. We will be part of a multi-year effort by GoDocs to learn from the local experts, and share knowledge from a place of empathy and compassion. Whatever training I have, we all have much to learn. 

Where the money goes: 
It would be improper to pay to send staff from the US that could be hired locally.  So with the exception of myself, all drivers, translators, and nurses will recruited from vetted relationships to help Nepali non-profit organizations in their own ongoing mission to rebuild their country after the 2015 earthquake, and to meet international global health goals. Drugs and medical supplies will be purchased from local pharmacies at a steep discount - the money will go far. 

Your donations will rent/ship medical devices (Ultrasound, EKG, $300), purchase medical supplies (consumables: gloves, wraps, syringes, toothbrushes: $200) and prescriptions (1-year supplies from the WHO necessary medicines list: $700) as well as materials for critical public health education (UN-WASH, $100), and the absolutely necessary actual cash to support the trip in the form of gas, food, lodging, and to employ Nepali assistants ($1000), and for transportation costs  (airfare, jeep $2000). Lastly, through a partnership with www.fieldready.org we will deliver a 3D-printing Go-Kit ($700) to the hospital, and work with designers from NASA to make on-the-spot manufacturing of umbilical cord clamps, autoinjectors, otoscopes, and anything the medical staff there needs.  

Global outreach doctors has proven they can get to remote places, and show up with the resources and innovation I will need to help the most people possible.  We need your help to give us the most potential possible during our deployment. 

Please donate what you can, even if it's a few dollars. They go a long way!

Thank you for what you can do, even if it is just to forward this message.