Christmas Gifts to Malawi
Scene 1 – Doctor in a Malawi Government Hospital
You are a doctor making preparations for surgery to assist a seriously ill patient? The staff has done everything possible to clean the surgery area; however, they have no soap with which to clean, and they are faced with another problem. There is no sterilization equipment to clean the instruments so the staff has boiled water in order to prepare the surgical instruments.
As you put on a clean gown you call for a pair of surgical gloves to protect you from contracting any of the diseases that may be present. You wait, hands in the air. Nothing. You ask again. There is still no response. You turn to the surgical nurse who will assist you.
“Where are my gloves,” you ask?
She looks down, ashamed to face you. In a low voice she responds, “Doctor, we have no gloves. You will need to do the surgery today with no protection.”
Scene 2 – Nurse in a Malawi Rural Hospital
She is the only medical person on duty in this busy rural, government hospital. The nurse rushes urgently from one patient to the next. Already she has delivered three babies on her shift and there will certainly be more before anyone comes to relieve her. It is nothing new; they are always understaffed and short of supplies.
As she is assisting a critically ill AIDS patient she hears someone call from down the hall. She quickly finishes and rushes to help the one who has called out for her. There will be another delivery in the next few minutes and she is facing some complications with the patient. Add to that the difficulty the nurse is facing. She has little in the way of supplies, and for herself, she has no rubber gloves to protect herself or her patients from the transmission of disease.
Scene 3 – You in this Scene in the First World
Christmas is coming and you are moving through your list of purchases; family, friends, associates. But there is one more you need to add to the list. That one is a doctor or nurse in Malawi. For as little as $10.00 to $12.00 you can give them the life-saving protection of 100 pair of rubber gloves. This is a gift that could mean life or death. It’s easy to add a doctor and nurse to your list. Refe3r to it as your,“Christmas gloves for a Malawi doctor or nurse.”
- Purchase and send one or more boxes of gloves to the Malawi Project. We will get them to Malawi.
- Send a check to the Malawi Project, 3314 Van Tassel Drive, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240
- Electronically program a contribution at: https://www.malawiproject.org/get-involved/
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