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More Tourists Help Bring Supplies – Specialized Dressings!

More Tourists Help Bring Supplies – Specialized Dressings!

This is a picture of Villa Clara nurses receiving specialized dressings brought by tourists travelling to Varedaro Cuba. In November 2011 and again in November 2012 Thunder Bay Nurses Karen Parker and Lori Owens travelled to Villa Clara province in Cuba to teach clinic nurses the use of these highly specialized (and very expensive) wound dressings. The problem was that sending the dressings in containers meant they might end up anywhere and not be used properly. The answer to that problem: send them with…

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Blood Sugar Strips Delivered to Cuba thanks to Tourists Enroute

Blood Sugar Strips Delivered to Cuba thanks to Tourists Enroute

Two months ago Thunder Bay Regional Hospital gave us 7500 blood sugar test strips. They were still good but the hospital had switched to a different brand as J&J Medical no longer made these. The problem was that we did not have the machines to use them in. Finally the local hospital found a couple of the “Glucometers” in the Laboratory. They made sure they were working okay and gave them to us. We were then able to send the…

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Thunder Bay Tourists Carry Medical Supplies to Cuba

Thunder Bay Tourists Carry Medical Supplies to Cuba

Travelling to Varadero, Cuba, can make a difference and save lives! Stan and Janet Roy are not your average tourist. “If you’re going on vacation, why not help someone else if you can?” says Janet Roy. On their last two trips to Cuba, they have done just that. They have taken various medical items for MEMO Cuba. “It’s very easy to do,” says Stan Roy, Janet’s husband,”Especially if you are travelling to a Varadero Beach resort.” Most tourists end up…

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