The Heartline Haiti Birth Center is preparing for opening day.  All hopes are that babies can start being born there late Fall.

     In Haiti, women cannot get medical care unless they can afford to pay.  Many are malnurished, destitute poor without any means for healthcare, so they forgo medical care often giving birth alone at home. 

     Soon, pregnant women will have a friend in childbirth.  Heartline is already providing prenatal care, nutrition, vitamins, and lab work, but soon women will be able to come to the birthcenter to give birth surrounded by people who will care for them with gentleness and exceptional midwifery care.

    In a recent article,A Painful Birth For Free Medical Assistance in Haiti, by Jordi Zamora (AFP), Zamora states that female mortality in Haiti is 130 women per 100,000 births.  Dying needlessly in childbirth is simply unacceptable.  We can do better than that.

     Won't you consider what you can do?  Here is a list of items we are trying to put together:

Exam Tables
Bedside tables
Adjustable Lamps
IV Poles
O2 Tanks
Baby Baths
Room Dividers
Autoclave
Umbilical Cord Scissors
Heostats
Weigh Scale
Blood Pressure Cuffs
Dopplers
Fetascopes
Stethoscopes
Thermometers
Wheel Chair
Stretcher
Shower Chairs
Kidney Basins
Mini Fridge for Meds
Towels
Cord Clamps
Teaching Tools
Meds:
Methergin
Pictocin
Vit K
Lidocane
Acetaminophen
Betadine
Flat White Sheets
Small Suture Scissors
Office Folders
Baby Blankets
Speculums
Sutures
Needles
Bags of Fluid IV
Guaze
Urinary Catheters
Bed Pans
Birth Stool
Tape
Chux
Pregnancy Wheel
Measuring Tapes
Sterile Gel
Doppler Gel
Exam Gloves
Sterile Gloves
Antibiotics
Birth Ball
Ice Packs
Equiptment for Collecting Labs
Birth Wedges
Suction Machine
Bulb Syringes
Ambu-bags
O2 Tubing
O2 Nasal Tubing
Adult and INfant O2 Masks
Resuscitation Board
Flashlights
Headlamps
Emergency Power Outage Lights
Hand Mirrors
Cotton Balls
Laundry Soaking Buckets
Extra Doppler Batteries
Glucometer and Test Strips
HGL/HCT meters and Strips
Lancets
Adult and Infant Diapers
Ring Forceps
PKU Kits
Vacuum Extraction Kit
Lab Resource Book
Drug Handbook
Plastic Mattress Covers
EPO
Goldenseal
Arnica
Nipple Cream
Heating Pad or Bottle
Gentian Violet
Pregnancy Tests
Spray or Squeeze Bottles
Episiotomy Scissors
Cloth Diapers
Sanitary Pads
Baby Wipes
Prenatal Vitamins
Iron
Fungal Creams
Yeast Infection Meds
Antibacterial Gel
Antibiotic Eye Ointment for newborns

     This is a very long list of everthing they would like to acquire.  Maybe you have something or know someone who can donate one of these itmes.  I thank you for anything you can do.  All donations can be sent to Homebound Missions and we will get them to Haiti.  For larger items you may want to call me at 508.839.9972.

     Thank you so much for all your efforts on behalf of these women in Haiti.