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Breathing New Life
A gift of medical equipment from Samaritan’s Purse helps save a child’s life in Africa.
As a general surgeon for the past 10 years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dr. Warren Cooper has performed operations of every description and complexity. That includes everything from repairing broken bones to craniotomies. However, one of the more difficult procedures he has undertaken at Nyankunde Hospital involves the removal of foreign objects that are swallowed and become trapped in a person’s airway.
Nyankunde Hospital serves a critical need for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The problem is especially common among young children, who naturally like to place objects in their mouths. The wrong size object can pass through the vocal cords and lodge in the trachea.
“It is a scary situation, and if not handled appropriately, the child can die,” said Dr. Cooper. “It is always a stressful nightmare. Many times I am forced to make a cut on the trachea and blindly try to fish out the object.”
The challenge is magnified at under-resourced mission hospitals, where instruments that would be considered standard equipment in the Western world are not available. Samaritan’s Purse maintains a medical supplies warehouse from which we ship procured or donated supplies to dozens of our partner mission hospitals around the world.
The Difference of the Right Tool
This year during a visit to Samaritan’s Purse, Cooper discussed some of the equipment needs of Nyankunde Hospital. A rigid pediatric bronchoscope was one of those tools.
Within two weeks of his return to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the physician faced a critical situation in which the bronchoscope was needed. A 4-year-old boy had been admitted into the hospital. Deeply concerned, his family explained that the child, named Baraka, had been walking home a few days ago when he started to cough and choke. They first brought him to a hospital near their community. U Canadian actor and comedian (–) This article is about the Canadian actor. For the World War I flying ace, see John Candy (RAF officer). John Candy Candy in John Franklin Candy Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Durango City, Durango, Mexico Rosemary Margaret Hobor &#; &#; John Franklin Candy (October 31, – March 4, ) was a Canadian actor and comedian who is best known for his work in Hollywood films. Candy first rose to national prominence in the s as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City and its SCTV sketch comedy series. He rose to international fame in the s with his roles in comedy films such as Stripes (), Splash (), Brewster's Millions (), Armed and Dangerous (), Spaceballs (), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (), The Great Outdoors (), Uncle Buck (), and Cool Runnings (). He also appeared in supporting roles in The Blues Brothers (), National Lampoon's Vacation (), Little Shop of Horrors (), Home Alone (), JFK (), and Nothing but Trouble (). In addition to his work as an actor, Candy was a co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL), and the team won the Grey Cup under his ownership. He died in at the age of His final two film appearances, Wagons East () and Canadian Bacon (), are dedicated to his memory. John Franklin Candy was born on October 31, , in Newmarket, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario. He was brought up in a working-class Catholic family. His childhood home was at Woodville Avenue in East York, Ontario. According to the Canadian census records Candy's father Sidney James (–) was born to English .Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation
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POISONED WATER is about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Most of you are probably familiar with it because for a while, it was splashed all over the news. To save money, residents were switched from Detroit-routed pipes fed by Lake Huron to a direct line piped in from the Flint River. Soon, residents were getting disgusting-looking water in various colors of brown, and started suffering conditions ranging from skin rashes to Legionnaire's disease. It turns out that not only was there microbial contamination from the water (gross), the chemicals that were being added to treat the water (at the ridiculously underfunded facility-- $8 million budget to upkeep something that should have cost a conservative $60 million) were being added without chemicals to prevent corrosion, which was resulting in all the metals from the pipes filtering into the water, including lead.
What makes it worse was that the officials responsible for the change from Huron to the Flint River were, in the words of the book "aggressively dismissive" to residents voicing their concerns over whether the water was fit for themselves and their families to drink. One woman was accused of dying the brown water in her bottle herself at what I believe was a council meeting. A dossier of scientific data collected by a leading expert in water safety was brought in to officials who even refused to touch or accept it. To save the town money, they switched to water that already had indications of being unfit to drink, and in an ironic twist of fate, anything that was saved was lost in the legal fees from the investigation of the mismanagement.
According to the back of the book, this is middle grade nonfiction. I don't really think this is middle grade-appropriate, just because the writing level is very science- and data-heavy, a John Candy
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