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Kudos!! to all PAMAG Missioners
Hello PAMAG Members, Missioners and Friends,
Kudos!! to all PAMAG Missioners. We had another wonderful and a very fulfilling experience in beautiful Puerto Princesa. By all accounts the mission was a great success. We surely have touched and changed a lot of lives in Palawan. Livia and I can only speak for the medical side of the mission at the coliseum. We have seen over 3000 people (adults and children) during our 4 day out patient clinic. In spite of the long wait people were all very polite and nice to all the missioners. They all were very grateful and appreciative of our presence and help. We haven’t noticed any complaints or dissatisfaction to any of the PAMAG Missioners. We appreciate the volunteers from City Health nurses and students who managed the crowd effectively and most especially to the Rotarians who were instrumental in making the mission possible. The Pharmacy headed by no other than our very own Dr. Grace Bautista with her team Cora T, Linda T,, Linda P, Spencer, Mercy, Malou, Richard, Noli , John and Teddy, were amazing in handling those medications. The OPD Medical team truly enjoyed their work like Drs. Lisa Fowlkes, Mary Ann Lim, Mylin Torres, Mark Paradela and May Bullicer , Melania Domingo , Aurora Estrella, Zeny Magat, Ray Parungao, Marylou Fernando and of course Livia and Halbrert Capuy. David and Janice Petsch also enjoyed giving nebulizer treatments and giving away jet nebulizer machines to the chronically sick and truly needy patients. Let’s not forget Jocelyn Porquez Schobert who really made it easy for us to come to a diagnosis. She has done a great job writing their case histories (thousands of them). Yes, it is very easy for us to claim we did a great job and rightfully so but the real glory and honor should go to Dr. Lem Villanueva together with his
lovely wife Cora. They have donated a lot of their time effort and money to make this mission a success. They have mobilized their family and Brookes point as well. High five to Lem and Cora.
Looking forward to the next mission
Halbert and Livia
PAMAG PALAWAN MISSION 2011 Participants
PAMAG PALAWAN MISSION 2011 Participants Overall Coordinator: Lemuel Villanueva, MD
Paul Beltran, MD –PAMAG Medical Mission Chairman
Surgeons:
1.Parungao, Romulo MD – Team Leader
2.Torres, Sam MD – Urology
3. Del Carmen, Ben MD-General Surgery
4.Villanueva, Lemuel MD – OB/GYN
5.Estrella, Renato MD- OB/Gyn
6.Porquez, Joe MD – General Surgery
7.Villanueva, Rex- Surgical Assistant
8.Hines, Jeff MD- OB/GYN
9. Shirley, Steven MD- General Surgery
10 Castillo, Paul MD – General Surgery(PI)
11.Lazo, Medy MD –General Surgery (PI)
Smile Train/Plastic Surgery/ENT:
1. Mijares, Mirela, MD – Plastic Surgery(PI)
Team Leader
2.Carpenter, Rob MD- Plastic surgery
3. Uy, Lemuel, MD – Plastic Surgery (PI)
4. Villanueva, Romulo Jr., MD – ENT
5. Arenajo, Alvin, MD- Plastic Surgeon
Smile Train Group Coordinators:
Beltran, Marilyn MD
Beltran, Paul MD
Ophthalmology
1. Ong, Jesus MD (PI) – Team Leader
2. Cajita, Vic, MD (PI)
Anesthesia
1. Magat, Willie MD- Co-Team Leader
2. Villanueva, Beth- Nurse Anesthetist
Co- Team Leader
3. Sneed, Victoria MD
4. Mancao, Florentino MD
5. Tan, Eden MD – Pediatric Anesthesia(PI)
6. Grace Dizon, MD (Pain MX/Anesthesia)
7. Krizar, Randy- PA Anesthetist
8. Simmons, Bert PA Anesthetist
Surgery- Outpatient
1. Magat, Abellardo MD- Team Leader
2. Tan, Mike MD
3. Bautista, Victor MD
Pathology
1. Parungao, Josefina MD
Adult Medicine – OPD
1. Capuy,Livia MD- FP- Co-Team Leader
2. Fowlkes, Lisa MD- Co- Team Leader
3. Estrella, Aurora MD- IM
4. Porquez -Schobert, Joselyn APRN
5. Mary Ann Lim, MD = Nephrology/IM
6. May Bullecer Paradella, MD= IM
7. Mark Paradella, MD= IM
8. Torres, Mylin, M.D.
9. Leoncio, Ruth MD- FP (PI)
Cardiology: Paul Beltran, MD
Pulmonology:
1.Posas, Adelito ,MD (PI)-Team leader
2.Ulanday, S. MD (PI)-Pediatric Pulmonologist
Pediatrics – OPD
1. Magat, Zeny MD- Co-Team Leader
2.Capuy, Halbert MD -Co-Team Leader
3.Parungao, Ray MD
4.Fernando, Marylou, MD
5. Domingo, Melania, MD
6. Bautista, Grace, MD – Pharmacy Co-Team Leader
Nurses & Allied
1. Villanueva, Eddie RN-OR/ Co-Team Leader
2. Cabrera, Chato RN- OR/ Co-Team Leader
3. Alcala, Nanette RN- OR Nurse
4. Lee, Josie RN – Pre-OP
5. Villanueva, Cora RN- Post-Op
6. Lumacang, Hermie RN- Post-Op
7. Suico, Merla RN- OPD
8. Ybanez, Mercy – Med Tech- OPD
9. David, Annie RN- Post-Op/ICU
10. Cabacungan, Beth RN- Pre-OP
11. Cabacungan, Pete RN- OR Nurse
12. Gash, Yul Brian RN ( OR)
13. Janice Petsch, RN – Donor/Nebulizer Treatments
14. Lacanilao, Maria, RN (OPD)
15. Urell, Sue, RN (Pre-op)
16. Mercado, Evelyn OR/ RN Assistant
17. Shirley, Arlene OR/RN Assistant
18. Villanueva, Kathleen – Medtech
Tech Support:
1. Ybanez, Teddy- Co-Chair Statistics
2. David, Jun- Photo/ Video/Documentation
3. David Petsch- Donor /Nebulizer Treatments
4. Lee, Richard- Pharmacy Tech
5. Schobert, Spencer- Pharmacy Tech
6. Torres, Linda, RN- Pharmacy Tech
7. Tan, Cora, RN- Pharmacy Tech
8. Linda Porquez- Phamacy tech + Medtech
9. Magat, Pearlie, RN- OR/ Registration
10. Jojie Donguines- OR Regist./ Statistics
11. Perigrina Buot Keh,RN Assistant./ Smile Train
12. Divina Naval OPD/ Registration
13. Villanueva, Ludovico, MD- Consultant Statistician
14. Uy, Virginia – Registration/ Smile Train
15. Villanueva, Ryan- Registration/Statistics
16. Villanueva, Ray-Registration/Statistics
17. Kho Kenneth Bejar- OR Registration/ Statistics
18. Mancao, Gabi – OR Tech
19. Smith, Malick – Registration/Pharmacy tech
20. Chen, Andrew- Pharmacy Tech
CME – Beltran, Paul, MD- Team Leader
Posas, Adelito, MD – Co-Team Leader (PI)
CEU/Nurses
Team Leaders: Edison Villanueva, RN
Beth Villanueva, RN
Coordinator: Cora Villanueva, RN
(PI- Practicing in the Philippines)
PAMAG Medical Mission Schedule Palawan Jan 2011
January 22, 2011 (Saturday)- Arrival of PAMAG Missioners
Opening and Sorting of Supplies and Equipment
Evening: Dinner sponsored by Governor Mitra
January 23, 2011 (Sunday) –Arrival of Missioners
Sorting of Supplies & Equipments; PM- Mass
Pre-OP; Surgical & Anesthesia Clearance
Evening: Dinner Sponsored by Mayor Hagedorn
January 24, 2011 (Monday) – First Day of Medical Mission
Hospitals: 1. COOP Hospital: Cataract & Cleft Lip Surgeries
2. WESTCOM Hosp: General Surgery/Gyn/Urology
COLISEUM: Outpatient Consultation & Minor Surgery
January 25, 2011 (Tuesday): 2nd day of Medical Mission
CME Programme/Dinner: Venue: A&A Plaza Hotel
Dinner: Sponsored by Vice Governor Fem Reyes
January 26, 2011 (Wed): 3rd day of Medical Mission
Evening Dinner: Sponsored by Rotary Club
January 27, 2011 (Thurs): 4th day of Medical Mission
8:00-10:00 AM CME-Holy Trinity Univ. School of Nursing
Evening Dinner: Sponsored by PAMAG for Volunteers
January 28, 2011 (Friday)
Post-op follow ups and Discharges
Day Trip to Underground River (One of the wonders of the The world)
January 29, 2011: Individual Plans for Saturday & Sunday
Dos Palmas Contact: Jocelyn: 0-915-259-9135
Medical Mission to Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines
MGen Juancho Sabban JM
Commanding General, Western Command Headquarters
Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines
This email is sent individually to the heads of the 3 Puerto Princesa Partner Hospitals of the upcoming Philippine American Medical Association of Georgia (PAMAG) Medical Mission to Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines on January 24-28, 2011.
Dear General Sabban,
Greetings from the great State of Georgia, U.S.A. to the great City of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines! At the last medical mission of PAMAG in Oroquieta, Misamis Occidental, Philippines, I met LtCol. Raymundo Acerde (I may have misspelled his last name), Commander of the Calamba, Misamis Occidental Army camp. It is great to be partnering with the Philippine military again!
*The list of the PAMAG medical mission volunteers are attached to this email. Several of the volunteers already have Philippine licenses. Some members in fact practice in the Philippines. The rest have their medical license applications already with the triumvirate (i.e. DOH, PMA {or PNA, or PDA}, and PRC). We hope to get all the Philippine licenses by reciprocity by Thanksgiving.
*Patients scheduled for surgery at the Western Command (WesCom) hospital will be screened by the local volunteer physicians working with the local coordinator Lito Posas, M.D. Lab tests will be done at the City Health Department Laboratory, where most patients will be getting their pre-op evaluations .Ancillary tests will be done where Dr. Posas and his colleagues would think best to send patients. I am copying again the List of lab and ancillary tests below.
*At the last PAMAG medical mission in Oroquieta City, Misamis Occidental February 2-6, 2009, we did more than 30 cleft palate cases. There were more than 40 cataract surgeries. 70 major surgeries and over a hundred minor surgeries. Several thousand pediatric and medical patients were also served.
As a corollary to the Smile Train cleft lip and palate surgeries, there is a plan by PAMAG to establish a training center for local surgeons of the city of Puerto Princesa and the province of Palawan to be trained to perform these surgeries. The Smile Train Foundation as one of its goals is to have training centers for local surgeons. PAMAG is fortunate to have two excellent plastic surgeons, Professor Mirela Mijares of Cebu Doctors Hospital, Cebu City and Robert Carpenter, a Johns Hopkins trained plastic surgeon, Maryland. My brother, an ENT surgeon, Maryland, will be assisting these two fine doctors. Dr. Mijares trained surgeons at the Oroquieta City training center and these local surgeons have now performed 18 cleft palate surgeries. The details still have to be worked out with Prof. Mijares regarding her returning to Puerto Princesa at periodic times to develop and maintain the Puerto Smile Train Cleft Lip Training Center. The 2009 Oroquieta city medical mission and the 2007 Dagupan city
Medical mission are posted in the PAMAG website, http://www.pamag.org
The doctors husband and wife in charge of the PAMAG partnership with Smile Train Foundation Dr. Paul Beltran, Cardiologist and Dr. Marilyn Beltran, Infectious Diseases will be filling you in on this Training Center program. In all likelihood, the Coordinator of Smile Train in the Philippines who is based in Manila will be in Puerto Princesa during the medical mission.
*The individual surgeons make rounds on their own patients. After the medical mission, I will be staying for at least 4 days to make rounds on patients and to follow-up on patients that are already discharged. I will be seeking volunteers, both local volunteers and PAMAG (taga labas) volunteers to stay past the actual medical mission days to round on the still hospitalized patients and to do post-op checks in the outpatient clinics of the 3medical mission partner hospitals. We are engaging the services of a local Puerto Princesa surgeon to continue follow-up on surgical patients with me past the medical mission days and after I leave Puerto. Dr. Lito Posas will be following up medical patients.
*As with the Oroquieta medical mission, we set up a budget for complications to take care of the expenses. As with the past 7PAMAG medical missions, we coordinate the care of these patients with our local medical mission partners. And as I stated above, I will stay at least 4 days past the medical mission days partly to deal with complications, should there be any. Due to the number of times PAMAG has been doing medical missions, details such as screening of patients for surgery, pairing the cases with the appropriate operators (surgeons), protocols, follow-up issues after the medical mission is over have been made part of every medical mission we undertake.
*Lito Posas, M.D. is the local medical mission volunteer coordinator for the Puerto Princesa, Palawan PAMAG Medical Mission. Now that we have established the lines of communication with the 3 hospitals, I have provided him a copy of this email.
We have learned over the years that we can learn from the local practitioners/healthcare providers who volunteer with us in the medical missions that PAMAG undertake in the same vein that the local practitioners/healthcare providers can learn from us. Indeed, this part of the medical mission I feel is one of the strong points of PAMAG medical missions. The American volunteers born especially value the experience they get working with the local practitioners/healthcare providers. A number of these American born volunteers are children of Filipinos born in the Philippines.
*As it is critical that communication continues I am glad of the excellent communication tools available to us being we are 14,000 miles apart. As this is our eight medical missions, one of the things we have learned and recognize to be vital to the success of medical missions is communication.
I have provided our main sponsor point person, Rotarian Mrs. Ditas Valencia a Magic Jack. Through it, anybody in Puerto Princesa can contact me and the other PAMAG “taga labas” volunteers without being charged a telephone call fee as it is a local call here in Metro Atlanta, Georgia. As a matter of fact, during the pre medical mission meeting tomorrow, Sunday, October 24, 2010, we will be communicating to Ditas via the Magic Jack phone. I have provided Ditas a copy of this email.
*It is reassuring to hear from you the willingness and dedication to partner your hospital to the upcoming PAMAG medical mission. It has encouraged the leaders of PAMAG to be partnering with such service oriented kababayans. During our PAMAG pre medical mission meeting tomorrow, I will bring up the idea of setting aside a day to do a medical mission to a Puerto barangay center. I am sure there would be a number of PAMAG volunteers who will be excited to participate for that day. The Puerto Coliseum is where the Pediatric/Medical/Dental services will be provided..
In our desire to maximize the short period the PAMAG medical mission “taga labas” volunteers are in Puerto, we have been securing materiel to use during the medical mission and to leave the rest with our partner volunteers – hospitals, city health department, etc. We therefore have shipped more than 50 Balikbayan boxes of supplies and non perishable or hard materiel. Due to the cost of shipping, a good portion of our PAMAG accumulated funds are used for shipping. And so, heavy equipment may or may not be shipped due to cost considerations. These heavy materiel include OR lights, OR tables, hospital beds, OR grade sterilizers. As with past medical missions, we are able to ship these heavy items as funds are available because PAMAG has to deal with local expenditures as well before, during and after the medical mission.
Medical missions remind me of campaigns, be it a political campaign, a military campaign, a religious mission campaign, etc. A lot of logistical details have to be threshed out. Local participation by Puerto volunteers, both of the healthcare and civic groups and by individuals is critical to the success of the mission. The PAMAG volunteers who are both members of PAMAG and non-members here in the U.S. and Germany may be dedicated in our desire to help those who need our help. The success however of such a campaign depends heavily on the local volunteers. And for this reason, I thank the 3 Puerto hospitals, Western Command Military Hospital (WesCOM), Palawan Adventist Hospital (PAH) and Ospital nang Palawan (PNH, Palawan National Hospital).
The actual schedule duirng the medical mission is made through consultations between the volunteers, both local and “taga labas”. It will be forthcoming.
Ni hao! Camsahamnida! !Muchas gracias! Maraming salamat! Daghang salamat! Thank y’all! I still have to learn how to say Thank you in Cuyonen.
Sincerely,
Lemuel G. Villanueva, M.D., FACOG
Overall Coordinator, 2011 PAMAG Medical Mission to Puerto Princesa, Palawan, January 24-28, 2011
President, 2010-2012
Philippine American Association of Georgia, U.S.A. website: http://www.pamag.org
drlgv@aol.com
C 404 353-1216
O 770 963-2485
Magic Jack phone# will be sent to you at another email
Attached: List of PAMAG medical mission volunteers
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