Fish for Change: Hospital Generator
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Update: We are so grateful for the momentum created by the people who took the time and effort to get this project off the ground. We will be moving the 5,720$ raised so far into the Fish for Change account while we follow up with the few families who’ve expressed interest in helping this project to its finish.
Mirella the Guanaja doctor reported the hospital is OPEN! Yet they still are troubled with power outages happening almost every morning.
The generator is still vital and time is still of the essence, so we deeply thank all of the support.
Fish for Change and the people of Guanaja.
We located the best option for the Guanaja Hospital generator in San Pedro Sula. A brand new 65 KW Cummins, can’t do any better than that.
Guanaja is an island with 10,000 people and no hospital. All medical concerns and emergencies require an evacuation to Roatan or the mainland of Honduras, which is often impossible.
After his first fishing trip to Fly Fish Guanaja, Matt Nawrocki saw the desperate need and funded Guanaja’s first hospital through Food for the Poor. Matt is a Fish for Change hero and board member.
The hospital is built, but more is needed to open its doors and maintain, and now is the crux. The hospital will either grow weeds around it, or open for ever.
Mirella the local doctor and Spergy the mayor jus traveled to San Pedro Sula to discuss ongoing funding from Red Cross and Honduran the government.
We opened the hospital a few days ago for the first time to clean the place and organize medical supplies. We started sweeping, mopping, washing walls, and moving new equipment.
30 minutes into our work the power went out. Fans stopped, rooms darkened and we continued our work with sweat soaking into our clothes.
Just after we mopped the first floor, dusted off the first roller bed, and opened the first boxes, there was a panicked commotion outside the hospital.
The villagers brought a man who was severely electrocuted while working for the power company. Our first patient had already arrived, and he was in bad shape.
The team of medics, who just happened to be there, went to work immediately. Students scrambled for buckets of water, gauze, tape, bandages. We tore through boxes in the dark using lights from our phones. We found enough supplies for the nurses to bandage and IV the guy with fluids. We helped carry the stretcher into a truck that drove him to the boat ambulance, off to Roatan. He lost his hand but we might have saved his life.
Mirella the doctor confirmed the hospital cannot open without a generator. Although the hospital needs more equipment, medicine, volunteers, this generator will officially open its doors, hopefully before the next emergency. We encourage you to take a minute and make our social media worth something today!
Here’s the breakdown:
21,275: Generator
2,500: Automatic Switch
500: Transport to Guanaja
1000: Airfare for installation crew
25,275: TOTAL
Mirella the Guanaja doctor reported the hospital is OPEN! Yet they still are troubled with power outages happening almost every morning.
The generator is still vital and time is still of the essence, so we deeply thank all of the support.
Fish for Change and the people of Guanaja.
We located the best option for the Guanaja Hospital generator in San Pedro Sula. A brand new 65 KW Cummins, can’t do any better than that.
Guanaja is an island with 10,000 people and no hospital. All medical concerns and emergencies require an evacuation to Roatan or the mainland of Honduras, which is often impossible.
After his first fishing trip to Fly Fish Guanaja, Matt Nawrocki saw the desperate need and funded Guanaja’s first hospital through Food for the Poor. Matt is a Fish for Change hero and board member.
The hospital is built, but more is needed to open its doors and maintain, and now is the crux. The hospital will either grow weeds around it, or open for ever.
Mirella the local doctor and Spergy the mayor jus traveled to San Pedro Sula to discuss ongoing funding from Red Cross and Honduran the government.
We opened the hospital a few days ago for the first time to clean the place and organize medical supplies. We started sweeping, mopping, washing walls, and moving new equipment.
30 minutes into our work the power went out. Fans stopped, rooms darkened and we continued our work with sweat soaking into our clothes.
Just after we mopped the first floor, dusted off the first roller bed, and opened the first boxes, there was a panicked commotion outside the hospital.
The villagers brought a man who was severely electrocuted while working for the power company. Our first patient had already arrived, and he was in bad shape.
The team of medics, who just happened to be there, went to work immediately. Students scrambled for buckets of water, gauze, tape, bandages. We tore through boxes in the dark using lights from our phones. We found enough supplies for the nurses to bandage and IV the guy with fluids. We helped carry the stretcher into a truck that drove him to the boat ambulance, off to Roatan. He lost his hand but we might have saved his life.
Mirella the doctor confirmed the hospital cannot open without a generator. Although the hospital needs more equipment, medicine, volunteers, this generator will officially open its doors, hopefully before the next emergency. We encourage you to take a minute and make our social media worth something today!
Here’s the breakdown:
21,275: Generator
2,500: Automatic Switch
500: Transport to Guanaja
1000: Airfare for installation crew
25,275: TOTAL
Co-organizers (5)
Steven Calaway Brown
Organizer
Denver, CO
Dan Johnson
Co-organizer
Duncan Reynolds
Co-organizer
Bryan Willis
Co-organizer
Kellen Adams
Co-organizer