Working with Rehabilitacion, the leading Dominican rehab center, the Humanitarian Medical Mission, IMAhelps will be in the Dominican Republic to to perform operations to connect 10 functional prothesis with robotic technology to children.
The candidates are children up to 18 years that have suffered amputations of arms under the elbow. The physicians will be available nationwide at 35 centers to assess the possible candidates for the prosthesis through 5 July 2024. For more information, call 809 685-7151, ext 1155.
The IMAHelps medical mission team will perform medical examinations and provide treatment for impoverished patients, including life-changing surgeries. The effort involves the University of California at Irvine and student robotics team ambassadors from the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio who are designing and fabricating mechanical arms and hands mainly for child amputees.
In the Dominican Republic, IMAHelps has developed a partnership with Rehabilitación, the leading Dominican private rehab center, that is using social media to help locate the beneficiaries.
IMAHelps is an Indian Wells, California-based non-profit 501 (c)(3) charity organization that provides basic healthcare and hygiene education, medical diagnoses, prescriptions, prothesis and life-changing surgeries to some of the poorest people of Central and South America and the Caribbean.
The volunteers cover their travel costs to participate in the humanitarian missions.
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24 June 2024