Humanitarian Trip Cape Verde 2015

CAPE VERDE 2015Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto

Isla Santiago (Praia)

CLAROS FOUNDATION

AUGUST 1-8, 2015

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Mr. Jaime AragallMrs. Ainhoa ArtetaMr. Jaime Bonet

Mr. José BrosMrs. Montserrat Caballé

Mr. Carlos ChaussonMr. Carlo ColombaraMr. Juan Diego Flórez

Mr. Josep Maria FlotatsMrs. Bárbara Frittoli

Mr. Ramón GenerMr. Raúl Giménez

Mr. Marcel GorgoriMr. Juan-Carlos Llarás

Mrs. Lucrecia Pérez “Lucrecia”Mrs. Montse Martí Caballé

Mr. Joan Matabosch Mr. Stefano PalatchiMrs. Raquel Pierotti

Mr. Juan PonsMrs. Carmen Pujol

Mrs. Isabel ReyMrs. Ana María SánchezMr. Joan Manuel Serrat

Secretary and Legal advisor:Mr. Fernando FoixVice-Secretary:

Mrs. Luisa Pujol HerrickTreasurer:

Andrés Clarós, MD

Registration No.: 1466ID No.: G-62421482

Board of Trustees

Honorary Chairman:Andrés Clarós Doménech, MD PhD (†)

President:Pedro Clarós, MD PhD

Vice-President:Mr. Antonio Sagnier

Patrons:

The Clarós Foundation is a non-profit organization whose main aims are the fight against profound hearing loss, treatment of ear pathologies, facial malformations and face and neck tumors, as well as medical sup-port in Third World countries.

The Clarós Foundation attends the needs in Emergent countries, as well as provides Scholarships to doc-tors with no financial resources, since 1997, and offers instructional courses in Emergent Eastern European countries, Asia and Africa.

The Clarós Foundation, for years has been conducting its mission in the fields of audiology, speech rehabili-tation, otorhinolaryngology, phoniatrics, facial plastic surgery and oral surgery. These projects have been materialized in many parts of the world, including India, Rumania, Republic of Moldavia, Ethiopia, Senegal, Liberia, Cameroon, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, D.R. of Congo, Sudan and Cape Verde, with the donation of medical supplies, essential life-saving medicines, and needed medical equipment which otherwise would not be available, and providing free medical care and surgeries to people in need, as well.

Additionally, donates and adapts hearing aids and some hearing implants to patients affected with hypo-acusia.

The humanitarian mission that travelled to Cape Verde was composed by 8 specialists. All of them directed by Pedro Clarós, MD PhD. These pages are a sample of the mission. The photographs were taken by each member of the team and thereof selected and edited in this book which aims to thank all those who have made possible this mission.

This mission and all the other activities organized by the Clarós Foundation are conducted thanks to the professional and financial support of the Board of Trustees, to whom we greatly thank for.

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Clarós Foundation Team

• Pedro Clarós MD, PhD (Barcelona) ENT & Facial Plastic Surgeon• Chantal Backes, MD (Andorra) Internist• Luis Cáncer, MD (Barcelona) Anestesist• Anita Virginia Moreira Da Cunha, MD (Portugal) ENT• Mrs. Mª del Carmen Pujol (Barcelona) Nurse• Mrs. Anne Marie Mattes (Barcelona) Nurse• Mr. Guillermo Cáncer (Barcelona) Volunteer• Mrs. Veronica Carrillo (Canarias) Audioprotesist

Local team

• Carmen Almeida, MD.• Felisberto Borges, MD.• Camilo Neves, MD.• Mrs. Jannette

-Her Excellency the Ambassador of Spain in Cape Verde, Mrs. Caridad Batalla. Site: Cape Verde, Isla de Santiago (Praia). Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto.

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Flight from Barcelona to Praia.

Our hotel and sightviews.

The climate is very good.

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Arrival of the team to Hospital Dr. Agostinho

Clinical cases.

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Visit to the mansion of the Embassy of Spain in Cape Verde.

Our transportation on behalf of Coca-Cola.

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Visit to the mansion of the Embassy of Spain in Cape Verde.

First day of surgery.

All the members of the hospital were very efficient.

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Dr. Chantal.

Dr. Anita Cunha.

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Preoperative evaluation.

Interviews for T.V. and visit with Dr. Pedro Clarós.

Visit to Bahia de Praia.

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Clinical case for gun lesion. Bullet lesion and facial paralysis.

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Wound due to concusive shrapnel gunshot, operated by Dr. Pedro Clarós.

Projectile.

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Relaxing during dinner with the medical team.

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Some sightseeing.

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Prision in Tarrafal.

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Visit to Cidade Velha.

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Dr. Pedro Clarós wishes to express his gratitude to the following entities:

-All who joined him. -The Clarós Foundation Board of Trustees. -Gaes Solidaria. -Kern Pharma, S.L. -Laboratorio Aragó, S.A. -Laboratorios Dr.Esteve, S.A. -Prim S.A -Otomedic -Neomedic S.A. -Tecnoquirúrgica S.A. -Medicimad -Embassy of Spain in Cape Verde. -Coca-Cola Cabo Verde. -Hospital Dr. Agostinho Neto de Praia.

and other anonymous entities for collaborating with our Foundation offering their support.

Visit to Cidade Velha.

Clarós Foundation Headquarters:C/Los Vergós, 29-31, 08017. Barcelona. España.

Tel. +34 93 203 12 12 - Fax +34 93 280 33 32E-mail: [email protected]

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Web: http://www.fundacionclaros.comRegistration nº 1.466 ID No.: G-62.421.482